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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
by Friedrich Perzynski  Publisher Comments New, information-packed introduction and extensive captions accompany more than 120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. A...
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Chinese Theatre and the Actor in Performance (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre)
by Josephine Riley Publisher Comments This work gives an ???inside??? view of Chinese theatre and the actor in performance....
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Flowering Spirit : Classic Teachings on the Art of No (06 Edition)
by Zeami And Wilson Publisher Comments The Flowering Spirit is a new translation of Fushikaden, the 15thcentury classic text by Zeami, founder of the No theater. Written sometime between 1400 and 1418, Fushikaden became a secret, sought-after guide to life for Zeamis acting troupe. Not until...
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Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture
by Alexcandra Bonds Publisher Comments Beijing Opera Costumes is the first in-depth English-language book focused exclusively on the costumes of Jingju, the highest form of stage arts in China. This comprehensive volume provides both theory and analysis of the costumes and the method of their...
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Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Monzaemo Chikamatsu Publisher Comments < P> Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as Japan's Shakespeare and a god of writers, was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of...
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Kabuki: Five Classic Plays (Accepted Into the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works,)
by James R Brandon Book News Annotation **** Reprint of the Harvard University Press edition originally published in 1975 (and endorsed by BCL3) with a new two-page preface by Brandon (Asian theater, U. of Hawaii). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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The East/West Quartet
by Ping Chong Publisher Comments For nearly three decades, Ping Chong and his company have written and staged some of the most innovative and arresting examinations of "the Other" on stages in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. His work more than any other artist has explored the ways Asian...
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The Komedie Stamboel: Popular Theater in Colonial Indonesia, 1891?1903 (Ohio Ris Southeast Asia)
by Matthew Isaac Cohen Publisher Comments Matthew Isaac Cohen's evocative social history situates the Komedie Stamboel in the culture of empire and in late nineteenth-century itinerant entertainment. He shows how the theater was used as a symbol of cross-ethnic integration in postcolonial...
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The No Plays of Japan: An Anthology
by Arthur Waley Publisher Comments < div> Part prose, part verse, the visually-stunning No plays of Japan deal with such subjects as insanity, obsession and historical characters, and frequently have as their focal points demons, gods, and beautiful women. Among the 19 works and 15...
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City Stage: Hong Kong Play-Writing in English
by Mike Ingham Book News Annotation This collection of short plays and excerpts from longer dramas includes productions mounted in the last ten years. The major focus is identity, whether as a native of Hong Kong, an expatriate, someone with strong Chinese identity, or someone who is...
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The Noh Theatre of Japan: With Complete Texts of 15 Classic Plays
by Ernest Fenollosa Publisher Comments This outstanding work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the most innovative poets of the first half of the 20th century, provides Western readers with complete translations of 15...
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Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
by Monzaemo Chikamatsu Publisher Comments Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today, and he is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition contains four of his most...
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #232: The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art
by Eric C Rath Publisher Comments Since the inception of the noh drama six centuries ago, actors have resisted the notion that noh rests on natural talent alone. Correct performance, they claim, demands adherence to traditions. Yet what constitutes noh's traditions and who can claim...
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The Theater of the Mahabharata: Terukkuttu Performances in South India
by Richard Arma Frasca Book News Annotation A study of the ritual reenactment of part of the Mahabharata epic as performed in the Tontaimantalam region of Tamil-speaking southern India. Frasca (religion, U. of California, Davis) explores the 2000-year history, the troupes, the literary corpus...
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Alternative Japanese Drama: Ten Plays
by Robert T Rolf TOC Alternative Japanese drama : a brief overview / Takahashi Yasunari -- The little match girl ; The legend of noon ; The cherry in bloom / Betsuyaku Minoru -- The sand of youth, how quickly ; Those days : a lyrical hypothesis on time and forgetting ; The...
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Six Circles, One Dewdrop: The Religio-Aesthetic World of Komparu Zenchiku
by Arthur H Thornhill Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index....
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After apocalypse :four Japanese plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by David G Goodman Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-325)....
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Four major plays of Chikamatsu
by Chikamatsu And Keene TOC The love suicides at Sonezaki -- The battles of Coxinga -- The uprooted pine -- The love suicides at Amijima -- A note on prostitution in Chikamatsu's plays -- Contemporary puppet performances of Chikamatsu's plays -- Bibliography....
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Kabuki: Five Classic Plays
by James R Brandon TOC Sukeroku: flower of Edo.--Saint Narukami and the god Fudåo.--Chronicle of the battle of Ichinotani.--Love letter from the licensed quarter.--The scarlet princess of Edo....
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Kabuki Handbook a Guide To Understanding & Appreci
by Aubrey S Halford
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