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Masterpieces of Kabuki : Eighteen Plays on Stage
James R. Brandon
Paperback - $48.95
Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki's dramaturgy flour ...
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Paperback - $48.95
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today, and he is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition contains four of his most i ...
The East/West Quartet
Ping Chong
Paperback - $27.95
For nearly three decades, Ping Chong and his company have written and staged some of the most innovative and arresting examinations of "the Other" on stages in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. His work more than any other artist has explored the ways Asia ...
Japanese Plays and Playfellows
Osman Edwards
Hardcover - $69.95
1901. With 12 plates by Japanese artists. Edwards offers his opinions on Japan and its theatrical matters based on a six-month stay in the country. Contents: Behind-the-scenes; Religious Plays; Popular Plays; Geisha and Cherry-Blossom; Vulgar Songs; ...
Japanese Plays and Playfellows
Osman Edwards
Paperback - $47.95
1901. With 12 plates by Japanese artists. Edwards offers his opinions on Japan and its theatrical matters based on a six-month stay in the country. Contents: Behind-the-scenes; Religious Plays; Popular Plays; Geisha and Cherry-Blossom; Vulgar Songs; ...
Snow in August : Play by Gao Xingjian
Gao Xingjian
Hardcover - $24.95
From Gao Xingjian, a winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature, comes a "major drama about life."
"Snow in August" is based on the life of Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad ...
Little Clay Cart : An English Translation of the Mrcchakatika of Sudraka as Adapted for the Stage by A.L. Basham
Robert E. Goodman
Paperback - $39.95
This is one of the best Sanskrit plays and it is known very widely. Basham's excellent adaptation makes the play more accessible in English than any previous rendering.
Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing
Guan Hanqing
Paperback - $33.95
Containing eight plays by the magnificent Guan Hanqing, the "Shakespeare of China." Guan Hanqing lived in the 13th century, at the height of the Yuan Dynasty. An actor himself, he is said to have written more than 60 plays for the travelling theater ...