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The Development Of Dance And Theatre In The East Asian Nations
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Formative period.
Singing and dancing were performed at the Chinese court as early as the Chou dynasty (C.1111-255 BC). An anecdote describes a case of realistic acting in 402 BC, when the chief jester of the court impersonated mannerisms of a recently deceased prime minister so faithfully that th ....
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....riors in today’s Chinese opera derive from this play. T’a-yao niang (“Stepping and Swaying Woman”) was a farcical domestic play in which a sobbing wife bitterly complained about her brutal husband, who then appeared and, singing and dancing, abused his wife even more. The embezzling rascal hero of Ts’an-chun (“The Military Counselor”) became a stock character in later plays. Thus, by T’ang times, three basic types of drama were known: military play, domestic play, and satire of officialdom; and .... |
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