The 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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 409 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231537346 (electronic bk.) 0231537344 (electronic bk.) |