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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957415103321

Titolo

Popular theatre : a sourcebook / / edited by Joel Schechter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-41220-4

0-415-25830-8

1-315-01305-3

1-136-41213-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Worlds of performance

Classificazione

24.13

Altri autori (Persone)

SchechterJoel <1947->

Disciplina

792

Soggetti

Theater

Theater and society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. What is popular theatre? -- part II. Puppets from Bread and Puppet Theatre to Bunraku and Broadway -- part III. Masks : commedia dell'arte and topeng -- part Ivolume Circus, clowns and jesters -- part volume Cabaret, vaudeville and the Fun Palace -- part VI. Political theatre as popular entertainment.

Sommario/riassunto

Bertolt Brecht turned to cabaret; Ariane Mnouchkine went to the circus; Joan Littlewood wanted to open a palace of fun. These were a few of the directors who turned to popular theatre forms in the last century, and this sourcebook accounts for their attraction.<BR>Popular theatre forms introduced in this sourcebook include cabaret, circus, puppetry, vaudeville, Indian jatra, political satire, and physical comedy. These entertainments are highly visual, itinerant, and readily understood by audiences. <EM>Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook</EM> follows them around the world, from the bunraku puppetry



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957168203321

Titolo

History of mathematical sciences : Portugal and East Asia II : University of Macau, China, 10-12 October 1998 / / edited by Luis Saraiva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2004

ISBN

9786611898366

9781281898364

1281898368

9789812702302

981270230X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SaraivaLuís

Disciplina

950.3

Soggetti

Mathematics - East Asia - History

Mathematics - Portugal - History

East Asia Intellectual life Western influences History Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Foreword Luis Saraiva; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Macau: An Intercultural Frontier in the Ming Period Luis Filipe Barreto; Survey and Study of pre-1900 Chinese Maps seen in Europe Li Xiaocong; Western Knowledge of Geography Reflected in Juan Cobo's Shilu (1593) Liu Dun; The Continuing Influence of the Portuguese: "A New Interpretation of World Geography" Wang Qianjin; Teachers of Mathematics in China: the Jesuits and their Textbooks (1580-1723) Catherine Jami; News from China in Sixteenth Century Europe: the Portuguese Connection Rui Loureiro

The Indianization of Spain in the 16th Century Juan GilJesuit Observations and Star-Mappings in Beijing as the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge Keizo Hashimoto; The Compilation of the Lixiung Kuochenghoubiun, its Origin, Sources, and Social Context Han Qi; A Japanese Reaction to Aristotelian Cosmology Tadashi Yoshida; Portugal and Korea: Obscure Connections in the Pre-Modern Sciences Before 1900 Park Seong-Rae

Translations of Portuguese texts into Konkani and Konkani



Compositions into Portuguese, with Educational Influence on Literature and Art and the Transfer of Technology Joseph Velinkar

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the interaction between Europe and East Asia between the 16th and the 18th centuries in the field of mathematical sciences, bringing to the fore the role of Portugal as an agent of transmission of European science to East Asia. It is an important contribution to understanding this fundamental period of scientific history, beginning with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in India in 1498 and ending with the expulsion of the Society of Jesus from Portugal in 1759. The former event opened a new era in relations between Europe and Asia, in particular regarding the circulation of scie