A Topsy-Turvy World : : Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties / / ed. by Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li, Stephen H. West.
Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed b...
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A Topsy-Turvy World : Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties / ed. by Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li, Stephen H. West. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Translations from the Asian Classics restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed by the lengthy masterpieces of the southern drama tradition.A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter sixteenth-to-eighteenth-century plays, spotlighting a lesser-known side of Chinese drama. Satirical and often earthy, these mostly one-act plays depict deceit, dissembling, reversed gender roles, and sudden upending of fortunes. With zest and humor, they portray henpecked husbands, supercilious and lustful monks, all-too-human sage kings, disgruntled officials, and overreaching young scholars. These plays provide a glimpse of Chinese daily life and mores even as they question or subvert the boundaries of social, moral, and political order.Each translation is preceded by a short introduction that describes the play's author, context, formal qualities, and textual history. A Topsy-Turvy World offers a new view of a significant period in the development of the Chinese theatrical tradition and provides insight into the role of drama as cultural critique. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023) Chinese drama Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 Translations into English. Chinese drama Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 Translations into English. LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese. bisacsh Idema, Wilt, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Li, Wai-yee, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt West, Stephen H., editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231557719 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231557719/original |
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