Arabic Shadow Theatre 1300-1900 : A Handbook /

Arabic Shadow Theatre 1300-1900 : A Handbook /

This handbook aims mainly at an analytical documentation of all the known textual remnants and the preserved artifacts of Arabic shadow theatre, a long-lived, and still living, tradition - from the earliest sightings in the tenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. The book consists of thr...

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Main Author: Guo, Li (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 143.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868.

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Shadow shows > Arab countries > History and criticism.

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Call Number: PN1979.S5

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Research
  • Arabic Shadow Theatre in Historical Sources
  • Early Modern Scholarship
  • New Studies
  • Resources
  • Primary Sources: Manuscripts and Artifacts
  • Language, Style, and Terminology
  • Performance
  • Repertoires
  • Medieval Arabic Shadow Plays: Ibn Dāniyāl and Others
  • Ottoman Egyptian Shadow Plays
  • Late Ottoman and Early Modern Egyptian Plays
  • Syrian and Levantine Plays
  • North African Plays
  • Notes from the Field
  • Back Matter
  • Arabic Shadow Plays: an Inventory
  • Shadow Theatre in Premodern Arabic Poetry
  • The Cast
  • The Programme of a Layla Celebration
  • Glossary (Arabic - English)
  • Bibliography
  • Index.