1616 : Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China /
The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theaters is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the fiel...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2016.
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| Summary: | The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theaters is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field of drama studies. In June 2014 (the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth), SOAS, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan gathered twenty scholars together to reflect on the theatrical practice of four hundred years ago and to ask what does such an exploration mean culturally for us today? This ground-breaking study offers fresh insights into the respective theatrical worlds of Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu and asks how the brave new theaters of 1616 may have a vital role to play in the intercultural dialogue of our own time. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 326 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472583420 1472583426 9781472583413 1472583418 |