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Leonard Pronko

Literature

#3267

World Rank

#5505

Historical Rank

#1517

USA Rank

Philology

#251

World Rank

#527

Historical Rank

#60

USA Rank

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Leonard Pronko's Degrees

PhD Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
Masters Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Leonard Cabell Pronko was an American theatre scholar best known for introducing the Japanese dance drama kabuki to the West, beginning in the 1960s. He was a professor of theatre at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he taught from 1957 to 2014.

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Leonard Pronko's Published Works

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Theater East and West: Perspectives Toward a Total Theater (1967) (30)
Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France (1978) (16)
Theatre East and West. (1969) (13)
The World of Jean Anouilh (1961) (11)
Theatre East and West: Perspectives toward a Total Theatre (1968) (7)
Shakespeare East and West (1996) (7)
Discovering the Theatre (1959) (7)
The "Revolutionary Theatre" of Alfonso Sastre (1960) (6)
Notes on My Theatre (1963) (5)
Guide to Japanese drama (1974) (5)
Asian Theatre: A Review of Current Scholarship (1976) (5)
The Anti-Spiritual Victory in the Theater of Ionesco (2013) (4)
A Theatre of Language (1963) (4)
Little Hanako: The Strange Story of Rodin's Only Japanese Model (1989) (4)
Oriental Theatre for the West: Problems of Authenticity and Communication (1968) (3)
Fundamentals of Japanese dance : Kabuki dance (2008) (3)
Theatre, the search for style (1997) (3)
Freedom and Tradition in the Kabuki Actor's Art (1969) (3)
On the Art of the Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami trans by J. Thomas Rimer and Yamazaki Masakazu (review) (2018) (2)
Learning Kabuki: The Training Program of the National Theatre of Japan. (1971) (2)
Kabuki and the Elizabethan Theatre (1967) (2)
An Interview with Ionesco (1963) (2)
The Prelate and the Pachyderm: Rear Guard and Vanguard Drama in the French Theater (1961) (2)
The Chronicle of Macbeth (1993) (2)
Kabuki: Signs, Symbols, and the Hieroglyphic Actor (2015) (2)
Theatre East/West: Return to the Feast (1994) (1)
Great Favorite Subscription List Gohiiki Kanjinchò (2017) (1)
Eugene Labiche and Georges Feydeau (1982) (1)
Kabuki Today and Tomorrow (2018) (1)
Sunshine and Substance: The Comic Theater of Achard, Anouilh, Ayme, Roussin (1959) (1)
The Three Cuckolds (1969) (1)
Trolls, Trills, and Tofu: Ibsen, Verdi, and Kabuki (2016) (1)
Drama and Society (1960) (1)
The Ticklish Acrobat (1969) (1)
The Contributors (1985) (1)
Creating Kabuki for the West (1994) (1)
Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage (review) (2000) (1)
The Nineteenth Century: New Public, New Theatres, New Forms (1982) (0)
Kabuki's Forgotten War: 1931–1945. By James R. Brandon. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2009. Pp. xiii + 465 + illus. $52 Hb. (2009) (0)
The Two Faces of Ionesco by Rosette C. Lamont and Melvin J. Friedman (review) (2018) (0)
Fragments of a Journal by Eugène Ionesco (review) (2013) (0)
The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud (review) (2013) (0)
Feydeau on Stage (1982) (0)
Creating a Kabuki Western:Revenge at Spider Mountain (1992) (0)
On the Art of the Nō Drama: The Major Treatises of Zeami , by Zeami Motokiyo (1985) (0)
The End of the World: An Introduction to Contemproary Drama by Maurice Valency (review) (2013) (0)
Twentieth-Century Feydeau: End of a Belle Epoque (1982) (0)
The Contributors (1985) (0)
The contributors (1982) (0)
Eugène Labiclie and the Second Empire (1982) (0)
The Second Ibsen Festival (1992) (0)
Closed and Open Societies (2008) (0)
Avant-Garde (2023) (0)
Lancelot Bewitched Excerpts from an Arthurian Kabuki (1994) (0)
Georges Feydeau and the Belle Epoque (1982) (0)
Early Labiche: From Vaudeville to Comedy of Character (1982) (0)
New book in review (1968) (0)
Le Théâtre Tragique ed. by Jean Jacquot (review) (2013) (0)
Beckett by Pierre Mélèse (review) (2013) (0)
Fin de Siècle Feydeau: Early Brilliance (1982) (0)
Terakoya: Kabuki and the Diminished Theatre of the West (2020) (0)
To Call Dance Japanese (2016) (0)
The Contributors (1986) (0)
The Quick and the Dead (1965) (0)
Eugène Ionesco, Notes and Counter Notes, Writings on the Theatre by Donald Watson (review) (2013) (0)
Ze-Ami and His Theories of Noh Drama by Masaru Sekine (review) (2016) (0)
Labiche on Stage (1982) (0)
The Contributors (1988) (0)
Creating a Kabuki Western: Revenge at Spider Mountain (2013) (0)
Once Again: Style (1963) (0)
The Anti-Spiritual Vitory in the Theatre of Ionesco (1959) (0)
Later Labiche: Continuity and Renewal (1982) (0)

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