The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre

This paperback edition, incorporating corrections and updates, contains more distilled information on the theatrical arts of Asia-Oceania than any other single volume yet published. A broad-ranging pan-Asian essay lucidly explores the basic themes of ritual, dance, puppetry, masks, training, performance, while national entries provide the historical development of theater in twenty countries. Major theater forms of each country are accompanied by entries on significant playwrights, actors and directors. An index and reading lists make this work indispensable.

• Most substantial coverage of performance arts in Asia-Oceania available in a single-volume
• Contributions by renowned scholars
• The broad sweep of the history of theatrical traditions in twenty countries is accompanied by detailed entries on their genres and artists
• Extensive reading lists, index of genres and artists, and rare photographs