THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture I What Changes Did The Romans Make II Two Major Playwrights Plautus and Terrance III Seneca IV Horace V Popular Entertainment For The Romans VI Eventual Decline of Roman Comedy Outline of Current Lecture I General Background on Asian Theater II Classical Indian Theater III Classical Chinese Theater IV Japanese Theater Forms Current Lecture I II III General Background on Asian Theater a Heavily Influenced by dance b Symbolic in meaning c Theater decline in West but continued in East i Religion causes decline in West see previous lecture for more info Classical Indian Theater a San Skrit language spoken by nobility i Plays written in this language ii Written in this language so only refined people understand appreciate it b A cannon is a collection of works i In a cannon of san skrit drama there is about 50 60 plays c Shakuntala is a seven act work i Tells story of kind and an orphan of a hermit ii They are in love and get secretly married d Total theater is when all singing dancing acting etc happen in the play i All aspects are working together to overwhelm the audience Classical Chinese Theater a Not a whole lot written about Chinese theater b Yuan Dynasty i has form of drama called Zazu ii Has a four hour work iii 168 of the work survived IV c Ming Dynasty i Relevance in popularity from previous dynasty stagnates ii Popular culture falls out iii More academic ornate iv Aimed more to the upper class Japanese Theater Forms a Noh Theater i Performers trained at young age in song dance and recitation of text ii Wording is very advanced very symbolic 1 In order to enjoy have to have good sense of culture iii 2 types of text 1 Phantasmal being approached by spirit of great or noble person of the past 2 Present Experience represents contemporary setting with characters as real people iv Has some mask work to help define what the character is representing b Bunraku Theater i Influenced by Noh Theater ii Main difference is that Bunraku is a puppet theater iii Puppets controlled by up to 3 handlers iv There is modern Bunraku v Handlers mostly dressed in black so are invisible to audience vi Puppets are 2 3 of an actual person s size c Kabuki Theater i Heavily influenced by Noh Theater especially in tone structure ii Most popular of all 3 forms of theater iii Has elaborate costumes iv Dances symbolic and structures in similar way v Costumes are all veil
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