Love For A Laugh The Comic In Romantic Chuanqi Plays Of The 17th And 18th Centuries
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Author | : Yanbing Tan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2023-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004548238 |
Download Love for a Laugh: The Comic in Romantic Chuanqi Plays of the 17th and 18th Centuries Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
After the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity (qing) in the chuanqi genre? This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their comic articulations bring the qing ideal down to the mundane world of family obligations, political ambitions, commercial interests, and gender frustrations. By highlighting the crucial but understudied role that the comic plays, this book enriches our understanding of the intellectual depth and critical scope of the chuanqi genre.
Author | : Li Yu |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2019-12-03 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0231550367 |
Download A Couple of Soles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her family’s acting troupe, and, in plays within the play, romance ensues. After Liu’s family attempts to marry her off to a local country squire, she performs a famous scene in which a heroine drowns herself—and then jumps off the stage into a river, followed by Tan. The local river deity rescues the lovers from death by transforming them into a pair of soles. Li balances their romance with the adventures of a retired upright official involving banditry, bribery, and mistaken identity—and who nets and shelters the two fish when they regain human form. Written at a time when China was beginning to recover from the cataclysmic Ming-Qing dynastic transition, A Couple of Soles displays Li’s biting wit as well as his reflections on the concerns of his age, including the dangers of administrative service and the role of theater in society. The play combines witty wordplay and caustic satire with a strong emphasis on traditional moral values. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, A Couple of Soles provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China. A general introduction and a detailed appendix shed further light on the play and its context.
Author | : Paolo Santangelo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Chinese literature |
ISBN | : 9789004396869 |
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The Culture of Love in China and Europe offers a cautiously comparative survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century.
Author | : David Rolston |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 817 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004463399 |
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Author | : Zhang Zhen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226982373 |
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Illustrating the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change, this book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 619 |
Release | : 2022-05-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004467181 |
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Author | : Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-01-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004436235 |
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Author | : Asiya Alam |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-01-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004438491 |
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Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia offers an account of Muslim feminism in an age of nationalism and reform, and how it shaped debates on family, morality and society.
Author | : Himani Bannerji |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 819 |
Release | : 2020-09-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 900444162X |
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The Ideological Condition is a feminist critique of ideology as a barrier to self and social transformation. Himani Bannerji explores the problematic of praxis by connecting forms of consciousness and politics. We see how people make history in spite of hegemony.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2021-09-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004466355 |
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