ABSTRACT
As has repeatedly beel1 stated, realism and rationaIiS1TI must not be SOUgllt in a Kabuki play, which is 110t a play to be heard, but rather a sort of revue to please the eye. In reVlles, however, reality alld truth are 110t lost sight of by tl1.eir writers ill their worI{ of presenting the beautiful. T110ugh there are some exceptions, the contrary method is used by the Kabuki dramatist. He aims at the bealltiful presentation of t11e ullreal al1d tIle unl1atural. T11is POillt is dwelt 011 at some length ill tile following l)aragraphs.
