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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 &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473110Author Yukio MishimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The first collection of plays from Indian playwright Abhishek Majumdar, in Hindi.Book InformationISBN 9781786822581Author Abhishek MajumdarFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Oberon Books LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 0g

Shakespeare in Singapore provides the first detailed and sustained study of the role of Shakespeare in Singaporean theatre, education, and culture. This book tracks the role and development of Shakespeare in education from the founding of modern...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912430390Author Muhammad AbePage Count 312Imprint Aurora Metro BooksPublisher Aurora Metro Publications

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...

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...

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...

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing...

-- Asian Thought and SocietyBook InformationISBN 9780231102636Author Cyril BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

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...

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Since premiering his pioneering linguistic experiment I Love XXX in Beijing nearly twenty-five years ago, Meng Jinghui has been credited with revitalizing Chinese theater by popularizing the avant-garde. Mixing high culture with mass culture, his plays...

Krishna Kumari: The Tragedy of India introduces readers to the first English language play in modern India. Written in 1826 by English Subba Rao, one of the first Indians to be schooled in English, Krishna Kumari depicts the true story of a princess of...