"The essayists included here - leading theatre scholars from all over the world, many of whom wrote essays specifically for this volume - provide an international context for national theatre histories as well as studies of individual nations. They cover a wide geographical area…
Historians of theatre face the same temptations and challenges as other historians: they negotiate assumptions (their own and those of others) about national identity and national character; they decide what events and actors to highlight--or omit--and what framework and perspec…
"In this, the first anthology of its kind, editor and translator Faye C. Fei provides a guided tour of China's evolving conceptions of theater and performance through the writings of noted Chinese philosophers, scholars, artists, and critics. The book's more than sixty selection…
"Provocative study of epic theater in Brazil. Concludes that most Brazilian works generally accepted as epic theater do not in fact belong in the category"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
"Provocative study of epic theater in Brazil. Concludes that most Brazilian works generally accepted as epic theater do not in fact belong in the category"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
