A Trip Through the Dutch East Indies
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I attended a per- formance at the court of the Mangkoonegoro at Solo, who is a great patron of this manner of drama. The show began at sunset and lasted all through the night. There are but few Hollanders who grasp the full meaning and purport of these entertainments, and those few are the scholars that have made a special study of the wayang and its history. Their conclusions are that the Javanese had their wayang before the Hindu invasion, that it developed indepen- dently of the puppet-shows... of China and Siam, and that, if the Siamese shadow-play shows any relationship to the wayang, it is Siam that borrowed it either from the Javanese or the Malayans of Malacca. It had, no doubt, its origin, as all dramatic art, in ancient Javanese religion. It was, at the start, a form of ancestral spirit worship. The phantastic shapes of the puppets, with their grotes- quely outlined profiles and their absurdly long and angular arms, are conventionalized designs of primitive conceptions of spirits.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I attended a per- formance at the court of the Mangkoonegoro at Solo, who is a great patron of this manner of drama. The show began at sunset and lasted all through the night. There are but few Hollanders who grasp the full meaning and purport of these entertainments, and those few are the scholars that have made a special study of the wayang and its history. Their conclusions are that the Javanese had their wayang before the Hindu invasion, that it developed indepen- dently of the puppet-shows... of China and Siam, and that, if the Siamese shadow-play shows any relationship to the wayang, it is Siam that borrowed it either from the Javanese or the Malayans of Malacca. It had, no doubt, its origin, as all dramatic art, in ancient Javanese religion. It was, at the start, a form of ancestral spirit worship. The phantastic shapes of the puppets, with their grotes- quely outlined profiles and their absurdly long and angular arms, are conventionalized designs of primitive conceptions of spirits.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Barnouw, A. J to read onlineMoreLess
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