Playwrights and literary games in seventeenth-century China
Subtitle: plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren
By: Jing Shen.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780739138571; 9780739138595
Subjects: Chinese drama -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism; Chinese drama -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- History and criticism; Theater -- China -- History; Dramatists, Chinese
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Playwrights and their circles; title: History and criticism of traditional Chinese theater; title: Huo Xiaoyu zhuan in Zichai ji; title: Liushi zhuan in Yuhe ji; title: The poetic constructions of (gendered) identities in Lü mudan; title: An ironic perspective on love poeticized in Fengzheng wu; title: Bimuyu; title: Taohua shan.