My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima

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Four plays by Yukio Mishima, translated into English for the first time. The title piece dramatises the Night of the Long Knives from Hitler's perspective — not as political history but as a study in betrayal, loyalty, and the seductive logic of purges. The remaining plays range across Mishima's obsessions: beauty, death, the emperor, and the theatrical nature of conviction itself. Mishima wrote over sixty plays in his lifetime, and this collection reveals a dramatist whose stage work carried the same dangerous intensity as his fiction and his life. A window into the mind of a writer who understood that the most honest performances are the ones that end in real consequences.