A couple of soles :: a comic play from seventeenth-century China /
"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 att...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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."-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xxv, 330 pages) |
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| spelling | Li, Yu, 1611-1680? author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81014376 Bimuyu. English A couple of soles : a comic play from seventeenth-century China / Li Yu ; translated by Jing Shen & Robert E. Hegel New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (xxv, 330 pages) text txt rdacontent computer n rdamedia online resource nc rdacarrier Translations from the Asian classics "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."-- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-330) Print version record Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Translation; Introduction, by Jing Shen; Dramatis Personae and Their Role Categories; Preface, by Wang Duanshu; Scenes; A Couple of Soles; Appendix: The Playwright and His Art, by Jing Shen; Notes; Bibliography Scholars China Drama. Actresses China Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Wit and humor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147124 Humour. humor. aat DRAMA Asian General. bisacsh Actresses fast Man-woman relationships fast Scholars fast Wit and humor fast China fast Drama fast Drama. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026297 Théâtre. rvmgf Shen, Jing, translator. Hegel, Robert E., 1943- translator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80086915 Print version: Li, Yu, 1611-1680? Bimuyu. English. Couple of soles. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231193542 (DLC) 2019025146 (OCoLC)1090171334 Translations from the Asian classics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92042416 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2088037 Volltext |
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| topic | Scholars China Drama. Actresses China Drama. Man-woman relationships Drama. Wit and humor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147124 Humour. humor. aat DRAMA Asian General. bisacsh Actresses fast Man-woman relationships fast Scholars fast Wit and humor fast |
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