1. Characteristics of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese Theater
Western culture is used to theater being divided into tragedy and comedy, but within the Indian theater there are eight subdivisions: compassionate, comic, furious, heroic, erotic, terrifying, disgusting and awesome. ... The lines of tragedy and comedy are not well defined in this type of theater, but a good character will typically be rewarded and a bad character usually will suffer. ...
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