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Theatre Traditions

Theater Style	Origin
Comedy or tragedy	Ancient Greece
Comedy or tragedy	Ancient Rome
Topeng dance	Bali
Cantonese, Yueju or Peking Opera	China
Yuan drama or Zaju	China
Khayal al-zill shadow puppets	Egypt
English Renaissance theatre	England
Victorian melodrama	England
Punch and Judy puppets	England
Comedy of manners or Restoration comedy	England, France
Medieval mystery plays	England, France, Germany
French farce	France
Karagozi shadow puppetry	Greece
Kathakali	India
Barong (or Rangda) dance	Indonesia
Kecak	Indonesia
Wayang golek puppetry	Indonesia, Malaysia
Wayang kulit shadow puppetry	Indonesia, Malaysia
Commedia dell-arte	Italy
Bunraku	Japan
Kabuki	Japan
Kyogen farce	Japan
Noh theatre	Japan
Rakugo "sit down" theatre	Japan
Talchum mask dance	Korea
Shadow puppetry	Taiwan, China
Hun Lakhon lek puppetry	Thailand
Khon dance drama	Thailand
Karagoz shadow puppetry	Turkey
British Pantomime	United Kingdom

A cart of relevant books has been pulled for your use, including these:

Playing Commedia by Barry Grantham
ISBN: 9781854594662
Publication Date: 792.23 GRA
Japanese No Masks by Friedrich Perzynski;
Call Number: 792.095 PER
ISBN: 9780486440149
Greek Theatre Performance by David Wiles
Call Number: 792.093 WIL
ISBN: 9780521648578

AES complete database list (with passwords)
This is the complete list of databases available through the AES library. You can access this document if you are signed in to your AES account.

The databases in this theatre list are organized from basic to advanced.

Britannica Encyclopedia
This is a great place to start your research. You're likely to find one or more entries that mention the theater tradition you are researching.
Infobase
Try Ancient and Medieval History Online for some of the older theater traditions.
EBSCO - Academic Search Complete
This multi-purpose database will have popular and scholarly articles that will be helpful for your research.
EBSCO - Literary Reference Center
Literature and theater often overlap, as searching this database will prove.
JSTOR
The most academic of the databases available through the AES libraries, this will take your research to a deeper level.

Find:

NYPL Best of the Web - Theatre
This is a list of over 100 links for websites about theater. You'll need to scan it or command-F search it for keywords.
The WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama
Victoria and Albert Museum - Theatre and Performance
PlayShakespeare.com
"The ultimate free Shakespeare resource"

Notecards (US letter)
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No matter what note-taking technique you use, these are important guidelines to follow:

Develop, modify, then stick to a strategy that works for you.
Read for understanding.
Paraphrase! (That's how you know you understand.)
Be able to trace every single idea in your notes to its source.
Write just enough - not so much that it's like reading the original all over again, not so little that you don't know what it means later.
Abbreviations, symbols, and diagrams are great, as long as you'll remember what they mean.

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