Author: KATS, J(acob).
Title: Het Javaansche tooneel. I Wajang poerwa.
Description: Weltevreden, Commisie voor de Volkslectuur, 1923. 4to. Original decorated boards (hinges weak but holding). With coloured map of Jambudwipa, 3 folding genealogical tables, 37 chromo-lithographed plates and many photographic plates and illustrations. 6,VIII,446 pp. Original edition; all published. - Standard work on the Javanese shadow theatre wayang purwa of southern Central Java. After a description of this theatre, and notes on its age, origin and original character and 20th century significance, all attention is devoted the theatrical literature: its character, and the classification of the plays, and their technical structure. This is followed by a synopsis of the Indian epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and a synopsis of the wayang purwa plays, based on material, collected from court and folk dalangs from Surakarta (Pandawa stories) and Yogyakarta (Arjuna-Sasra-Bau and Rama stories), embellished with illustrations by Sulardi from the collection in the Mangkunagaran (Pandawa stories). (Groenendael, Wayang theatre in Indonesia, 211).

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