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Em Texts The Traditional Theatre of Japan Kyogen Noh Kabuki and Puppetry by John Wesley Harris
There has never been a comprehensive survey in English of all the main forms of traditional Japanese drama - kyogen, noh, kabuki and puppetry. Individual works have been written on each form in abundance, some of them in English, and the majority of them are excellent, but they do not make the reader aware of the close connections between all of these older theatrical forms - their common origins in sacred dance, the high degree of stylization they all share, the selectivity in their use of gesture, the symbolic function of costume, the strict code of honour, which westerners often find so difficult to understand, and the heady mixture of violence with the appreciation of elegant form and a fragile, ephemeral beauty. The forms and conventions of theatre involved are also unique and challenge many of the theories that have been developed about the western stage. In fact, traditional Japanese drama is an area of theatre which should form an essential part of every dramatic specialist's education._x000D_ Table of contents :- _x000D_
Chapter 1 List of abbreviations Chapter 2 List of tables and figures Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Acknowledgements Chapter 5 CHAPTER 1: Pronunciation and Writing Systems Chapter 6 CHAPTER 2: Basic Sentence Patterns Chapter 7 CHAPTER 3: Verb Categorizations Chapter 8 CHAPTER 4: Verb Conjugations and Functions Chapter 9 CHAPTER 5: Verbals and the Particles Chapter 10 CHAPTER 6: The Copular Verb Chapter 11 CHAPTER 7: Copular Noun Chapter 12 CHAPTER 8: Adjective Chapter 13 CHAPTER 9: Auxiliary Verb Chapter 14 CHAPTER 10: Adverb Chapter 15 CHAPTER 11: Noun Chapter 16 CHAPTER 12: Pronoun Chapter 17 Appendix A: How to Use Appendix A Chapter 18 Appendix B: How to Use Appendix B Chapter 19 Bibliography Chapter 20 Index Chapter 21 About the Author_x000D_