Theater on the Web

These websites contain a wealth of information about medieval culture and drama.

Using resources from these sites, discuss how traditional Asian theater forms have influenced modern western productions. Cite specific examples from your research.

Labyrinth Home Page
(http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/labyrinth-home.html)

Sponsored by Georgetown University's medieval studies department, this site offers scholarly resources compiled from around the world.

European Medieval Drama Links
(http://collectorspost.com/Catalogue/medramalinks.htm)

Links to sites with texts of the Townley and York mystery cycle plays. Using the research materials available at this site, create a bibliography that could accompany a university theater department's updated production of the Mons Noah's Ark of 1501.

USF Asian Theatre Site
(http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/davisr/thtrasia.html)

This Asian theater site at the University of San Francisco links to information about various Asian theater forms from China, Japan, and southeast Asia.

Tales from Sanskrit Dramatists
(http://www.investindia.com/newsite/kids/stories/sanskrit.htm)

Provides an introduction to Sanskrit dramatists, plus synopses of several Sanskrit plays.

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