Arabic Shadow Theatre 1300-1900: A Handbook

by Li Guo

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 three main parts and a cluster of appendixes. Part One presents a history of Arab shadow theatre through a survey of medieval and premodern accounts and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004436146
• ISBN13: 9789004436145
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 298 Pages