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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516878741Author Chinie Chin ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516869336Author Judith GautierFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781516817160Author Chinie Chin ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440174100Author Stanley ScismFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456574048Author Herman D Franck EsqFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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 9781097292875Author Juliette Mai TriozonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Here for the first time are translations of five plays by Oh T'ae-sok, Korea's leading playwright and one of the most original dramatists and stage-directors working in Asia today. Drawing inspiration from both East and West and combining styles as...

A reflection on family and the power of a nation, this elegant and cerebral drama explores the disquietude of Shanghai and its residents in the wake of Tiananmen Square and the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. Frenchtown follows the story of Tess,...

This is one of the famous dramas by Lao She. The drama is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse and follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history. The play spans fifty years and has a cast of over sixty...

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

Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906582944Author Asa PalomeraFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

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

"Noor" is the tale of three brothers attempting to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped during Ramadan. Each brother represents a different ideological position in the contemporary Islamic world. While exploring the crisis of modern...

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...

On August 15, 1945, when the war ended, almost all of Tokyo and Osaka's theaters had been destroyed or heavily damaged by American bombs. The Japanese urban infrastructure was reduced to dust, and so, one might have thought, would be the nation's spirit,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906582418Author Sudha BhucharFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

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...