KING Yes. I shall release you - SAKUNTALA When? KING When? When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar. Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their separation by a curse, and eventual reunion, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet ...
Teachers nationwide have a great need for good, up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity for literature classes, oral interpretation and forensics. A valuable text for literary, forensics or theatrical applications.
Drawing on true stories told by his Chinese grandmother, Hwang's 1997 Obie Award-winning play invokes the age in which his great-grandfather broke with Confucian tradition by converting to Christianity and unbinding his daughter's feet.
Gao Xingjian, recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, lists European avant-garde drama among his influences, which can be felt in the plays collected in this volume. THE OTHER SHORE (1986), BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH (1991), DIALOGUE AND REBUTTAL (1992), NOCTURNAL WANDERER (1993), and WEEKEND QUARTET (1995), presented here in English ...
As China and the West grow closer together year by year, Chinese cinema becomes increasingly Westernized and Western interest in Chinese cinema continues to grow. "Hitchcock with a Chinese Face" examines three recent award-winning films - one from Shanghai, one from Hong Kong, one from Taipei - concerned with the issues of developing globalization ...
Written by the greatest of the ancient Indian playwrights, this 5th-century work of Sanskrit drama offers a classic introduction to Indian theater and aesthetics. A king encounters a lovely maiden by chance, and the course of their passionate love sweeps the audience from a forest hermitage to a dazzling palace to ethereal celestial realms.
Trying to Find Chinatown The Selected Plays of David Henry Hwang David Henry Hwang A major collection by the preeminent Asian-American playwright and author of "Golden Child and "M.Butterfly. Collects his major works over the past twenty years including "F.O.B., The Dance and the Railroad, Family Devotions, The House of the Sleeping Beauties, ...
Japanese no theatre or the drama of perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subjects, but the idea of form' is more central than meaning' and their structure is always ritualized. ...
This text discusses genres of traditional Japanese theatre - no, kyogen, and kabuki; and bunraku puppet theatre. It opens with a sampling of four versions of an ancient thunder god myth to portray the significant characteristics of the four major dramatic genres. The text is organized by genre and features prefatory essays on topics ranging from ...
The contributors - two Slavicists, a musicologist and an art historian - offer a detailed exploration of the ballet, "Petrushka", which premiered in Russia in 1911 and became one of the most important and influential theatrical works of the modernist period.
Though best known for his novels, Yukio Mishima published more than sixty plays, almost all of which were produced during his lifetime. Among them are kabuki plays and others inspired by No dramas -- two types used in classical Japanese theater. Of play-writing Mishima once observed, "I started writing dramas just as water flows toward a lower ...
This annotated translation is the first systematic rendering into any Western language of the nine major treatises on the art of the Japanese No theater by Zeami Motokivo (1363-1443). Zeami, who transformed the No from a country entertainment into a vehicle for profound theatrical and philosophical experience, was a brilliant actor himself, and ...
Presents six outstanding works by Asian-American women playwrights, written in the past 20 years. Each play addresses the experiences of Asian-Americans in the United States, repudiating cultural and sexual stereotypes.
The seven classics of Armenian theater presented here span the years 1871 to 1992. An introductory essay addressing each work's significance to the Armenian stage is included, as well as an overview of the genre each play represents, placing it in its historical context. The plays included are: PEPO by Sundukian, HONORABLE BEGGARS by Baronian, FOR ...
One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought up-to-date in this new edition. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humour of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists. One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English ...
An introduction to the Ming period of Chinese drama and literature, this book contains highlights from six of the best plays of that time, as well as commentary on each play.
Complete texts of Benten Kozo, Pulling the Carriage Apart and The Village School, Shunkan, and Naozamurai. Commentary on each play by actors and critics. Nearly 100 photographs.
This book addresses the political and aesthetic concerns of modern Indian theatre, propelled by the urban interest in folk theatre and the popularity of Brecht in connection with this. Just as Brecht's theatre held out the promise of widening the scope of middle-class concerns, of questioning the politics of theatre, and of overcoming the bounds ...
This study is entirely devoted to African literary drama in French, a major component of African theatre. Beginning with a detailed analysis of its relationship to a variety of pre-colonial, but sometimes still contemporary traditions of performance which constitute part of its roots, Conteh-Morgan examines this drama both in its literary and ...
This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra."
Presents a collection of plays by Girish Karnard. This volume contains four plays, namely "Tughlaq", "Hayavadana", "Bali: the sacrifice", and "Naga-Mandala".
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