Playwrights and literary games in seventeenth-century China : plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren / Jing Shen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shen, Jing, 1967-

Series:

Challenges Facing Chinese

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese drama--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--History and criticism.

Chinese drama.

Chinese drama--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--History and criticism.

Theater--China--History.

Theater.

Dramatists, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the first full-length English language survey of China's rich and sophisticated chuanqi drama, Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China offers detailed analyses of six canonical plays in the broad socio-historical context of late imperial China, supported by the application of both traditional and modern critical theories. Portraying the playwrights as creative readers of their cultural heritage, this study examines their plays as the products of their attachment to traditions and pursuit of novelty to surpass traditions.

Contents:

Playwrights and their circles

History and criticism of traditional Chinese theater

Huo Xiaoyu zhuan in Zichai ji

Liushi zhuan in Yuhe ji

The poetic constructions of (gendered) identities in Lü mudan

An ironic perspective on love poeticized in Fengzheng wu

Bimuyu

Taohua shan.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-30090-8

1-283-61385-9

0-7391-3859-6

9786613926302

OCLC:

855502683