The Use of Asian Theatre for Modern Western Theatre: The Displaced Mirror

By Min Tian

Book Overview

Chapter 1. Lugn?-Poe's Orientalism as Part of his Mission as an International Dramatic Prospector.- Chapter 2. Appia's and Craig's Views of the Japanese Theatre.- Chapter 3. The Use of the Noh by Jacques Copeau and Suzzane Bing.- Chapter 4. Theatre of Transposition: Charles Dullin and the East Asian Theatre.- Chapter 5. Authenticity and Usability, or "Welding the Unweldable" Meyerhold's Refraction of the Japanese Theatre.- Chapter 6. How Does the Billy-Goat Produce Milk? Sergei Eisenstein's Disintegration and Reconstitution of Kabuki Theatre.- Chapter 7. "The 'Asiatic' Model" The Brechtian Displacement and Refunctioning of the Japanese Theatre.- Conclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303040367X
• ISBN13: 9783030403676
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"