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9780253215277 Academic Inspection Copy

The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition

Mudan Ting
  • ISBN-13: 9780253215277
  • Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Xianzu Tang, Translated by Cyril Birch, Introduction by Catherine Swatek
  • Price: AUD $59.99
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  • Local release date: 16/06/2002
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 156.00mm) 384 pages Weight: 540g
  • Categories: Plays, playscripts [DD]
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One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought up-to-date in this new edition. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humour of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists. One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation. Cyril Birch has captured all the elegance, lyricism, and subtle humour of this drama by Tang Xianzu, perhaps the finest of the Ming dramatists. For the Second Edition, Cyril Birch and Catherine Swatek reflect upon contemporary performances of the play in light of its history.
Cyril Birch is Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley. His books include the two-volume Anthology of Chinese Literature, Stories from a Ming Collection, Scenes for Mandarins, Mistress and Maid, and Tales from China. Catherine Swatek is Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, and author of Peony Pavilion Onstage: Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama.
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A celebrated translation of this masterpiece of Chinese literature, in an updated edition
" ... [a] superb adaptation of one of the more complex pieces of traditional Chinese vernacular literature ... a sapphire in the crown of chuanqi drama, a play the Ulster of which shines undimmed in Cyril Birch's lively rendition." --Journal of Asian Studies "Birch has the exuberance needed for Tang Xianzu's work, and without distortion he finds in Tang's cast of minor characters ... a host of echoes of Shakespearean comedy and Shakespearean diction... [a] profound text in English that speaks to an audience of intelligent lay people as a work of artistic integrity rather than one of exotic chinoiserie."--New York Review of Books A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1981.
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