Women in Traditional Chinese Theater

The Heroine's Play

Fiction & Literature, Drama, Eastern, Nonfiction, Entertainment
Cover of the book Women in Traditional Chinese Theater by Qian Ma, : Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu, Xu Wei, Wu Weiye, Tang Ying, Lu Hongfei, UPA
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Author: Qian Ma, : Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu, Xu Wei, Wu Weiye, Tang Ying, Lu Hongfei ISBN: 9781461693956
Publisher: UPA Publication: August 17, 2012
Imprint: UPA Language: English
Author: Qian Ma, : Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu, Xu Wei, Wu Weiye, Tang Ying, Lu Hongfei
ISBN: 9781461693956
Publisher: UPA
Publication: August 17, 2012
Imprint: UPA
Language: English

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.

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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.

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