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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358724776Author Syed Asad AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390215775Author Shūdraka (Sudraka)Format PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789695933176Author Khurram ShahzadFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint SanjhPublisher SanjhWeight(grams) 140g

In his first play collection published in English, international audiences can finally discover the acclaimed work of Abhishek Majumdar. Internationally celebrated author and theatre maker Abhishek Majumdar has worked across the world as a playwright,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810850203Author Cai Mingjie PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Talisman PublishingPublisher Talisman PublishingWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119022601Author Saadat Hasan MantoFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 177g

Chitra: A Play in One Act (1914) is a play by Rabindranath Tagore. Published following his ascension to international fame with the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature, the play is based on the story of Chitrangada and Arjuna from Sanskrit epic Mahabharata...

The Post Office (1914) is a play by Rabindranath Tagore. Published following his ascension to international fame with the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature, the play was introduced to an international audience by W. B. Yeats. When the Irish poet discovered...

The Cycle of Spring (1919) is a play by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Cycle of Spring is a powerful and playful meditation on the cycle of nature, the ethics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513215815Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410200631Author Asataro MiyamoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991396801Author H K JejiFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Foliohut PressPublisher Foliohut PressWeight(grams) 127g

The world of traditional Chinese drama can be at once fascinating and bewildering to the uninitiated Western observer. Attuned to his own dramatic conventions, he is hard put to apprehend the delicate fusion of poetry, music, and subtle gesture which is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991396825Author H K JejiFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Foliohut PressPublisher Foliohut PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971485532Author J F GumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Sabai BooksPublisher Sabai BooksWeight(grams) 336g

A political play staging the Nazi takeover of Germany with an eye on India. Although Utpal Dutt is acknowledged as a trailblazer of post-Independence Indian theater, English readers have not had access to the range and wealth of his drama. Barricade...

This exhibition catalogue traces more than one hundred years of Cantonese opera in Edmonton within the changing dynamics of the Chinese community. It tells a story of life experiences on the Prairies by highlighting the inextricable relationship between...

Inspired by true stories, this critically acclaimed modern play explores the everyday abuse and exploitation of Asian women and their struggles to obtain freedom. The play has been performed internationally to sell-out audiences on three continents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839987052Author Xu Xiaying (Richard Xu)Format HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785273940Author Arnab BhattacharyaFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated translation of the dramatic masterpiece Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty Chinese playwright...

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her family's acting troupe, and, in plays within the play, romance...

This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays-canonical as well...

Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, they range from stories of cruelty and...

JAYA is a study of how the four poets of the Indian epic Mahabharata fuse their separate performances of the poem into a single and seamless work of art. The book examines in detail the different mnemonic forms engaged by this verbal activity focusing...

Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during a time of rapid social and historical change. Stretching from 1962 to 2004, these seven works tackle...

Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, they range from stories of cruelty and...

Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy's boys or blokes under their missus' thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and...

Creating a Profession: Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights is a collection of plays demonstrating a broad variety of contemporary perspectives as told through the eyes of the women who created them. The anthology is enhanced by significant...

This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners. How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to...

Jana Sanskriti Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed, based in West Bengal, is probably the largest and longest lasting Forum Theatre operation in the world. It was considered by Augusto Boal to be the chief exponent of his methodology outside of its...

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture - the Bengali group theatre. Arnab Banerji fills two lacunas in contemporary theatre scholarship. First, the materialist semiotic approach to...

In Arab circles in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s, plays were staged not only to entertain but also to educate and to further the emancipation of the traditionally oriented Arab minority. Some plays were well received, others evoked protests. Fatimah...

This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. Essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the Gio cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the...

Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. The plays invite comparison with...

First published in 1957. Besides tracing the history and development of the Peking Theatre, this volume explains acting techniques, stage costume and symbolism, musical forms and the various types of plays.Book InformationISBN 9781138970878Author A. C...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788183280754Author H. S. Shiva PrakashFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Wisdom TreePublisher Wisdom TreeWeight(grams) 780g

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous. So I didn't talk about my dreams or what was in my heart. And I was scared. Scared to let you follow your dreams. I didn't know how to. But keeping quiet didn't make my...

This book is the first of its kind offering a materialistic semiotic analysis of a non-Western theatre culture: Bengali group theatre. Arnab Banerji fills two lacunas in contemporary theatre scholarship. First, the materialist semiotic approach to...

Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture.Book InformationISBN 9781032238678Author Philip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Taylor &...