Yu A Couple of Soles

A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-55036-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, it provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yu, Li

Weitere Mitwirkende

Shen, Jing

Hegel, Robert E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hegel Robert E.:
Robert E. Hegel (Columbia PhD) is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature in Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Washington University, St. Louis. His publications include Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 1998) and The Novel in Seventeenth Century China (Columbia, 1981) as well asthe translated volume Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection (Washington, 2017) and numerous edited collections, book chapters, and articles.Li Yu (1610–1680) was a popular author and theatrical impresario with a reputation for tales that tested social limits. The writer of comic plays and short stories that mixed erudition and earthy topics, Li is the likely author of the erotic and parodic novel The Carnal Prayer Mat.

Jing Shen is professor of Chinese language and literature at Eckerd College.

Robert E. Hegel is professor emeritus of Chinese language and literature and Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.