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Author: Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov Publisher: ISBN: Category : Puppet plays Languages : en Pages : 82
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Describes the various types of Chinese puppet theater, discusses ancient traditional plays still performed, and speculates on the origin of the gloved puppet.
Author: Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov Publisher: ISBN: Category : Puppet plays Languages : en Pages : 82
Book Description
Describes the various types of Chinese puppet theater, discusses ancient traditional plays still performed, and speculates on the origin of the gloved puppet.
Author: Fan Pen Li Chen Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 1438464835 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of northern China. Marionette puppet theater has a rich and ancient history in China, extending back to the Han dynasty and reaching its heyday in the Qing dynasty. While this art form is nearly extinct in northern China today, a handful of troupes in Heyang County in Shaanxi Province, which claims to be the birthplace of marionette theater, continue to perform skits and scenes from Heyangs earlier, broader marionette theater repertoire. In this book, Fan Pen Li Chen has collected and translated rare transcriptions of some of the most popular of these plays. Her insightful translations include a rich variety of genres and highlight memorable characters that range from manipulative aristocrats, poor Confucian scholars, and a woman warrior to Baldy Guo, the iconic clown of puppet theater. As the only work in English about the puppet theater of northern China, these translations provide valuable information about the history, religion, social roles, and popular culture of that region. Detailed introductions and annotations for each play, as well as an extensive bibliography, are also included.
Author: Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov Publisher: Plays ISBN: 9780823801947 Category : Puppet plays Languages : en Pages : 55
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Describes the various types of Chinese puppet theater, discusses ancient traditional plays still performed, and speculates on the origin of the gloved puppet.
Author: Beth Osnes Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786457929 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 204
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This comprehensive book explores the Malaysian form of shadow puppet theatre, highlighting its unique nature within the context of Southeast Asian and Asian shadow puppet theatre traditions. Intended for a Western audience not familiar with Asian performance and practices, the text serves as a bridge to this highly imaginative form. An in-depth examination of the Malaysian puppet tradition is provided, as well as performance scripts, designs for puppet characters, instructions for creating a shadow screen, and easy directions for performance. Another section then considers the practical, pedagogical, and ethical issues that arise in the teaching of this art.
Author: Grant Hayter-Menzies Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773589090 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
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Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.
Author: Sophie Volpp Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 168417435X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 395
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"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua shan), and unveils lesser-known materials such as Wang Jide’s play The Male Queen (Nan wanghou). In doing so, Volpp sheds new light on the capacity of seventeenth-century drama to comment on the cultural politics of the age.Worldly Stage arrives at a conception of theatricality particular to the classical Chinese theater and informed by historical stage practices. The transience of worldly phenomena and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization, as theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated."
Author: Robin Ruizendaal Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047418131 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 480
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From the 1990's to 2003 the author followed four marionette theatre companies in the Quanzhou area. Based on this unique fieldwork the author describes both the theatrical and social context of the marionette theatre. He shows it as a complex entity in which elements of religion, ritual, language, history and social structure all come together. The study includes an analysis of the companies' organization, libretti, music and puppets, as well as of the social and religous context of the performances and their ritual aspects. Its important insights into the functioning of a traditional form of theatre in the economically advanced region of southern Fujian provide a fascinating window on contemporary China.
Author: Fan-Pen Li Chen Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773531971 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 367
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In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Author: Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov
Author: Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov
Author: Fan Pen Li Chen
Author: Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov
Author: Sergei Obraztsov
Author: Beth Osnes
Author: Grant Hayter-Menzies
Author: Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta, Ga.)
Author: Sophie Volpp
Author: Robin Ruizendaal
Author: Fan-Pen Li Chen