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The Kabuki Theatre of Japan

By: Adolphe Clarence Scott

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One of the most comprehensive handbooks available on Kabuki theatre. Text describes the theater's development in the context of Japanese history, with detailed analyses of actors' techniques, music and dance, plays and playwrights, the playhouse's design evolution, and six representative Kabuki plays. Includes glossary of Japanese terms. "Highly recommended." — Library Journal.

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Courier Corporation

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0486406458

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9780486406459

Actors are Madmen

Notebook of a Theatregoer in China

By: Adolphe Clarence Scott

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Actors are Madmen

Notebook of a Theatregoer in China

By: Adolphe Clarence Scott

A. C. Scott's first visit to China in 1946 marked the beginning of a personal involvement with that nation's people and culture that would prove singular in its intensity, intimacy, and joy. Now, more than three decades later, an eminent Western authority on Asian theatre looks back on those early years of discovery in a memoir that is at once compelling drama and vividly etched history. This is an explorer's impressions of a world which few foreigners have ever seen and a scholar's unique depiction of pre-liberation China, its society, customs, and theatre, before the final curtain fell. For anyone interested in Chinese culture, history, or drama, or intrigued by the increasingly rare genre of travelogue, Scott's achievement will prove both enjoyable and invaluable.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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029908860X

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9780299088606

Actors are Madmen

Notebook of a Theatregoer in China

By: Adolphe Clarence Scott

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Notebook of a Theatregoer in China

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Mei Lan-fang

The Life and Times of a Peking Actor

By: A.C. Scott

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Mei Lan-fang

The Life and Times of a Peking Actor

By: A.C. Scott

Mei Lan-fang came from a famous actor family -the profession is often hereditary in China-and this story of his life is drawn mainly from his own reminiscences and from conversations with the author. He was a national figure whose name was a household word for more than forty years; even in Europe, Japan, Russia and America he was widely known and admired. He was instrumental in opening the eyes of men like Stanislavsky, Eisenstein and Brecht to new dimensions of theatrical expression. No other Chinese actor attained and retained the unique position held by Mei Lan-fang. In foreign eyes it is unique in another sense for Mei made his reputation playing the women's roles of the Chinese classical repertoire, somewhat in the tradition of the Elizabethan theatre in the West. This biographical sketch remains the solitary account in English of China's most famous actor.

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Hong Kong University Press

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0856560022

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9780856560026

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