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context: theatre > noh > impenetrability
Impenetrability of Noh: Characters
Characters in Noh are generally not as we would understand them: the main figure, the shite (an unfortunate name for English speakers), is representative of an emotion rather than a personality. Other characters are almost never more than secondary ciphers, often with no remotely detectable personality traits.