UID:
almahu_9948665018102882
Format:
1 online resource (249 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9781453915554
Series Statement:
Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures 240
Content:
This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260). Although other authors have studied these three aspects of Dou E yuan separately, this is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic as a scholarly monograph in English. Yumin Ao’s analysis is based on the edition of the play in the Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] compiled by the Ming publisher Zang Maoxun (ca. 1550–1620). Ao proposes that Dou E yuan, as a dramatic narrative which develops through its enactment on the stage rather than by verbal presentation as a story, displays its integrative structure of narration through its thematic development and within its musical conventions.
Note:
Contents: Guan Hanqing, His Zaju Composition and the Editions of Dou E yuan 13 – Modern Criticism of Guan Hanqing and Yuan Zaju – A Study on the Original Story – Thematic Structure – Narrative Structure – Musical Structure (I) – (III).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781433130557
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-1-4539-1555-4
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/31510?format=EPDF
