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Women in Traditional Chinese Theater : The Heroine's Play by Qian Ma; : Guan Hanqing; Zheng Guangzu; Xu Wei; Wu Weiye; Tang Ying; Lu Hongfei is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Women in Traditional Chinese Theater : The Heroine's Play about?

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.

Author

Qian Ma; : Guan Hanqing; Zheng Guangzu; Xu Wei; Wu Weiye; Tang Ying; Lu Hongfei

Publisher

University Press of America, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780761832171

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Drama, Humanities