Author: Paul KuritzPublisher: PAUL KURITZ
ISBN: 9780135478615
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Author: Oscar Gross Brockett
Author: John Russell BrownTheatre and History
Author: Rebecca SchneiderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137456574
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This provocative book meets the supposedly 'live' practices of performance and the 'no-longer-live' historical past at their own dangerous crossroads. Focussing on the 'and' of the title, it addresses the tangled relations between the terms, practices, ideas, and aims embedded in these compatriot - but often oppositional - arts and acts of time.
Author: Glynne Wickham
Author: David WilesTheatre Histories
Author: Phillip B. ZarrilliPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415462231
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.
Author: Errol G. Hill
Author: Robert LeachA New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre
Author: Noel John PinningtonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 303006140X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O'Neill's Early Nō Drama of 1958, it covers the full period of noh's medieval development and includes a chapter dedicated to the comic art of kyōgen, which has often been left in noh's shadow. It is based on contemporary research in Japan, Asia, Europe and America, and embraces current ideas of theatre history, providing a richly contextualized account which looks closely at theatrical forms and genres as they arose. The masked drama of noh, with its ghosts, chanting and music, and its use in Japanese films, has been the object of modern international interest. However, audiences are often confused as to what noh actually is. This book attempts to answer where noh came from, what it was like in its day, and what it was for. To that end, it contains sections which discuss a number of prominent noh plays in their period and challenges established approaches. It also contains the first detailed study in English of the kyōgen repertoire of the sixteenth-century.
