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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 267
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 267.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Significance of theatricality in seventeenth-century China -- Performance practice and stage architecture -- Theatricality and pedagogy in Tang Xianzu's Mudan Ting (The Peony Pavilion) -- Illusion and allusion: the theatricality of gender and history in Wang Jide's Nan Wanghou (The male queen) -- Literary consumption of actors in seventeenth-century China -- Storyteller Liu Jingting : the theatricality of the "vernacular" in Kong Shangren's Taohua Shan (The peach blossom fan) -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu's 'Peony Pavilion' (Mudan ting) and Kong Shangren's 'Peach Blossom Fan' (Taohua shan), and unveils lesser-known materials such as Wang Jide's play 'The Male Queen' (Nan wanghou). In doing so, Volpp sheds new light on the capacity of seventeenth-century drama to comment on the cultural politics of the age. 'Worldly Stage' arrives at a conception of theatricality particular to the classical Chinese theater and informed by historical stage practices. The transience of worldly phenomena and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization, as theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated"--Publisher's description, p. [2] of dust jacket |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theater -- China -- History -- 17th century.
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Theater. |
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China. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Chinese drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese drama. |
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History. |
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Playwriting. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780674021440 0674021444 (DLC) 2010045124 (OCoLC)678924019 |
| ISBN |
9781684174355 (electronic book) |
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168417435X (electronic book) |
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9780674021440 |
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0674021444 (hardcover) |
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