Reading Guide for The Theatre of Asia

As always - this is just a guide, not an exhaustive outline of the readings.
This may just seem like an outline of the chapter, but in this case, we’ll mostly just be getting the very basic outline of these forms, so the many details in the chapter will be unnecessary. Just get a general idea about the following forms.

• India
  Natyasastra
  Mahabarata
  Ramayana
  Kalidasa - Shakuntala
  codified gesture
  Kathakali
  
  
• China
  Yuan drama
  Beijing Opera
  Bugaku
  
  
• Japan
  Noh drama
  hashigakari
  butai
  character types
  
  Kyogen
  samurai
  shoguns
  
  Bunraku
  samisen
  
  Kabuki
  onnagata
  hanamichi
  
  
• Indonesia
  Wayang Kulit (as representative of many other forms of shadow puppets)