Women in Traditional Chinese Theater: The Heroine's Play - Brossura

Ma, Qian

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ISBN 10: 0761832173 ISBN 13: 9780761832171

Casa editrice: UPA, 2005

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Qian Mais Associate Professor of English at Roanoke College. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Emory University.

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Book by Ma Qian

Su questa edizione

• Editore: UPA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0761832173
• ISBN 13: 9780761832171
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 326