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Theatre Appreciation (43-101)

Research a variety of time periods, geographic areas, theatre architecture, scene design, costumes, acting, plays, dramatists, culture, and audiences.

Chinese theatre

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) Chapter 14 Traditional Theatres of China
- Cultural Ideas
- Development of Dramatic Form
- Dramatic Literature –Tsa-Chu, Ch'uan-ch'i & J'un-Ch'u, Peking Opera
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) Chapter 12 Oriental Theatre - The Theatre of China.
History of the Theatre, 9th ed. by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
Chapter 26/Theatre of Asia/China p. 620
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Beijing Opera
- Theater, Society, and Culture
- (Performance and Audience)
- Actors and Acting
- Costumes
- Stage and Scenery (Stage Design)

Chinese Theatre: Subjects

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*International dictionary of theatre: Playwrights, volume 2
Tang Xianzu, p. 940

Far east noh

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 9 The Traditional Theatres of Japan
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
- Kabuki Theatre – Location (Stage), Performers (Actors), Audience
- Kabuki – Kanjincho, Chusingura, Sukeroku (Representative play)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary Western theater)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 12 Oriental Theatre/The Theatre of Japan p.532
- Kabuki Noh (Acting, Stage, Costumes, Representative plays and dramatists)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and dramatists of the time
- Chapter 26 Theatre of Asia/Japan p. 631
- Kabuki (Acting, Stage, Costumes, Representative plays and dramatists)
Japanese Theatre by Faubion Bowers
(4 hour loan)

An Introduction to Noh & Kyogen

Far East noh: Subjects

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Noh history

Masterworks of the Nō theater
Himuro / by Miyamasu -- Nonomiya / by Zeami -- Funabenkei = Benkei of the boat / by Kanze Kojirō Nobumitsu -- Ataka / by Kanze Kojirō Nobumitsu -- Hagoromo / author unknown -- Izutsu / by Zeami -- Atsumori / by Zeami -- Tadanori / by Zeami -- Matsukaze / adapted by Zeami from Kannami's work -- Higaki / by Zeami -- Obasute / by Zeami -- Saigyōzakura / by Zeami -- Motomezuka / by Kannami -- Kuzu / author unknown -- Nue / by Zeami -- Taema / attributed to Zeami -- Tōru / by Zeami -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : a Nō play / by Kenneth Yasuda
Noh

Representative Plays and Writers of Plays/eTexts of Noh Plays

International dictionary of theatre: Playwrights, volume 2
Zeami, p.1075

Far east kabuki

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 9 The Traditional Theatres of Japan
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
- Kabuki Theatre – Location (Stage), Performers (Actors), Audience
- Kabuki – Kanjincho, Chusingura, Sukeroku (Representative play)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary Western theater)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 12 Oriental Theatre/The Theatre of Japan p.532
- Kabuki Noh (Acting, Stage, Costumes, Representative plays and dramatists)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and dramatists of the time
- Chapter 26 Theatre of Asia/Japan p. 631
- Kabuki (Acting, Stage, Costumes, Representative plays and dramatists)
Japanese Theatre by Faubion Bowers
(4 hour loan)

Far East Kabuki: Subjects

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International dictionary of theatre: Playwrights, volume 2
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, p.189
The Art of Kabuki: famous plays in performance by translated, with commentary, by Samuel L. Leiter

Kabuki Techniques

Far eastern bunraku

A Cultural History of Theatre by Jack Watson
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Influence on modern or contemporary theater
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 9 The Traditional Theatres of Japan
- Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
- Kabuki Theatre – Location (Stage), Performers (Actors), Audience
- Kabuki – Kanjincho, Chusingura, Sukeroku (Representative play)
- Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary Western theater)
Theatre: a history of the art by Jerry V. Pickering
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and playwrights
- Chapter 12 Oriental Theatre/The Theatre of Japan p.532
- Kabuki Noh (Acting, Stage, Costumes, Representative plays and dramatists)
History of the Theatre by Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
(4 hour loan) This is good for:
- Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
- Theater and society
- Representative plays and dramatists of the time
- Chapter 26 Theatre of Asia/Japan p. 631
- Kabuki (Acting, Stage, Costumes, Representative plays and dramatists)

Far East Bunraku: Subjects

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Daily life in early modern Japan
Introduction: Japan in the Eighteenth Century -- Chronology -- 1. Early History -- 2. Population -- 3. Governance -- 4. Religion -- 5. Language -- 6. Time -- 7. Food -- 8. Clothing -- 9. Buildings -- 10. Village Life -- 11. Cities -- 12. Rural Work -- 13. Urban Work -- 14. Cottage Industries -- 15. Nightsoil -- 16. Trade -- 17. Customs -- 18. Family -- 19. Sex -- 20. Women -- 21. Amusements -- 22. Chonin Amusements -- 23. Travel
*Edo culture: Daily life and diversions in urban Japan, 1600-1868
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Edo : the warrior's city -- Edokko : the townsperson -- Iki : the aesthetic of Edo -- Edo publishing and ukiyo-e -- Edo temples and shrines -- Provincial culture of the Kasei Period (1804-1830) -- Itinerants, actors, pilgrims -- Edo-Period cuisine -- The social context fo Nō -- Social strata and music -- The aesthetics of Kabuki -- Popular performing arts : from Edo to Meiji.

International dictionary of theatre: Playwrights, volume 2
Chikamatsu Monzaemon, p.189

Bunraku: Masters of Japanese Puppet Theater

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