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  1. The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays
    The Earliest Known Versions
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty... more

    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju are based on late-Ming regularized editions that were heavily adapted for performance at the Ming imperial court and then extensively revised in the seventeenth century for the reading pleasure of Jiangnan literati. These early editions are based on scripts for the leading actor and provide the reader with the arias, prose dialogue, and cue ...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Idema, Wilt L.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231168540; 9780231538107 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
    Scope: 409 p.
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  2. The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays
    The Earliest Known Versions
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty... more

    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Online-Ressource
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    This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju are based on late-Ming regularized editions that were heavily adapted for performance at the Ming imperial court and then extensively revised in the seventeenth century for the reading pleasure of Jiangnan literati. These early editions are based on scripts for the leading actor and provide the reader with the arias, prose dialogue, and cue

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231168540
    Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
    Scope: Online-Ressource (409 p)
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    Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note to the Reader; Table of Dynasties; Introduction; Conventions; 1. The Orphan of Zhao; The Orphan of Zhao, Fourteenth-Century Edition; The Orphan of Zhao Greatly Wreaks Vengeance, A Selection of Yuan Plays Edition; 2. Huo Guang Remonstrates as a Ghost; Newly Printed in Hangzhou with Plot Prompts: Huo Guang Remonstrates as a Ghost, a Fourteenth-Century Edition; 3. Xue Rengui Returns Home Clad in Brocade; A Newly Cut Full Text: Xue Rengui Returns Home Clad in Brocade, with the Complete Prompts, a Fourteenth-Century Edition

    A Selection of Yuan Plays Edition of the Zaju Xue Rengui Returns Home in Glory4. The Bamboo-Leaf Boat; Newly Cut with Plot Prompts: Chen Jiqing Is Enlightened to the Way on a Bamboo-Leaf Boat; A Selection of Yuan Plays Edition of the Zaju Chen Jiqing Mistakenly Boards a Bamboo-Leaf Boat; 5. Tippler Zhao Yuan Encounters the Prior Emperor; Newly Cut with Plot Prompts: Tippler Zhao Yuan Encounters the Prior Emperor, a Fourteenth-Century Edition; Tippler Zhao Yuan Encounters the Prior Emperor, a Ming Manuscript Edition; 6. The Affair of the Eastern Window Exposed

    Newly Printed at the Great Capital, a Complete Text with Plot Prompts: The Affair of the Eastern Window Exposed, a Fourteenth-Century Edition7. Little Butcher Zhang Immolates His Child to Save His Mother; Newly Printed in Hangzhou: Little Butcher Zhang Immolates His Child to Save His Mother, a Fourteenth-Century Edition; Works Cited and Suggested Readings