Women in Traditional Chinese Theater
The Heroine's Play
Women in Traditional Chinese Theater
The Heroine's Play
Description
Women in Traditional Chinese Theatre seeks to introduce Western readers to Chinese classical drama as well as investigate how women have traditionally been portrayed on stage by presenting original translations of six plays from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. Framed with a comprehensive introduction to the Chinese theatre and its representation of women, each play is preceded by an interpretative summary of the plot, and an analysis of each play's theme and significance. The selections in this volume feature women representing the most popular female archetypes in Chinese literature: the paragon of virtue, the stoic sufferer, the faithful wife, the femme fatal, and others. Appealing to both scholars and general enthusiasts of theatre, literature, and women's studies, this book reveals how the cultural constructs of Chinese women are represented in dramatic literature, and how the theatre, in turn, shapes this representation into the cultural perception of women.
Table of Contents
2 Introduction: A Historical Sketch; Plot, Theme, Form, and Style; Chinese Women and Their Representation on Stage
Chapter 3 Injustice to Dou E (Dou E yuan): Guan Hanqing
Chapter 4 Qiannu's Soul Leaves Her Body (Qiannu li hun): Zheng Guangzu
Chapter 5 Mulan (Ci Mulan): Xu Wei
Chapter 6 Spring Pavilian (Lin chun ge): Wu Weiye
Chapter 7 Laughter in a Flour Barrel (Miangang ziao): Tang Ying
Chapter 8 The Girl Who Marries a Princess (Nu fuma): Lu Hongfei
9 Bibliography
10 Glossary of Chinese Characters
Product details
| Published | Aug 17 2012 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 326 |
| ISBN | 9780761883111 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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