SOURCE: A review of "'Noh,' or Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan", by Ernest Fenollosa, in The Dial Vol. 63, September 13, 1917, pp. 209-10.

In the following essay, Fuller gives a brief overview of the origins, intentions, and structure of Noh drama

To-day's reciprocal obligations in regard to culture continue to multiply. This is one of the pleasure-pains of cosmopolitanism. Mr. Fenollosa's records of his conversations with the reviver of the classical drama of Japan ["Noh." or Accomplishment: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan.] tell how he gave the ancient man a brief account of the classic drama of Greece: "he already knew," adds this Occidental adventurer into the lore of the East, "something about opera." Now, if the Oriental shows a disposition to familiarize himself with Euripides and Puccini—to say nothing of Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Oscar Wilde—shall we not...