Screen LibraryThe Columbia anthology of Yuan drama /
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...
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Chinese |
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Translations from the Asian classics
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| 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. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 409 pages ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780231122672 0231122675 9780231122665 0231122667 |
| Index Number: | PL2658 |
| CLC: | I237 |
| Call Number: | I237/C726 |
| Contents: |
The Zhao orphan / Tricking Kuai Tong / Selling rice in Chenzhou / The Moheluo Doll / The Eastern hall elder / The tiger head plaque / Rescuing a sister / Qiu Hu tries to seduce his wife / On horseback and over the garden wall / Scholar Zhang boils the sea / |