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The Columbia anthology of Yuan drama / C. T. Hsia, Wai-yee Li, and George Kao, editor ; cover and book design, Lisa Hamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Translations from the Asian classics.
- Translations from the Asian classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese drama--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368--Translations into English.
- Chinese drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (427 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279?1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic range. Combining sung arias with declaimed verses and doggerels, dialogues and mime, and jokes and acrobatic feats, Yuan drama formed a vital part of China's culture of performance and entertainment in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To date, few Yuan-dynasty plays have been translated into English. Well-known
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- HISTORICAL PLAYS
- 1. Ji Junxiang, The Zhao Orphan / Huang, Pi-Twan / Li, Wai-Yee
- The Zhao Orphan in Yuan Edition / Li, Wai-Yee
- 2. Anonymous, Tricking Kuai Tong / Li, Wai-Yee
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
- 3. Anonymous, Selling Rice in Chenzhou / Hessney, Richard C.
- 4. Meng Hanqing, The Moheluo Doll / Chaves, Jonathan
- FOLLY AND CONSEQUENCES
- 5. Oin Jianfu, The Eastern Hall Elder / Hegel, Robert E. / Li, Wai-Yee
- 6. Li Zhifu, The Tiger Head Plaque / Szekely, Yoram / Hsia, C. T. / Li, Wai-Yee / Kao, George
- FEMALE AGENCY
- 7. Guan Hanqing, Rescuing a Suiter / Kao, George / Li, Wai-Yee
- 8. Shi Junbao, Qiu Hu Tried to Seduce Hid Wife / Hargett, James M. / Coleman, John / Lai, Kuan-Fook / Shen, Gloria / Ming, Wang
- ROMANTIC LOVE
- 9. Bai Pu, On Hordeback and Over the Garden Wall / Cavanaugh, Jerome / Li, Wai-Yee
- 10. Li Haogu, Scholar Zhang Boild the Sea / Zimmerman, Allen A.
- Bibliography
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780231537346
- 0231537344
- OCLC:
- 873136794
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