Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays - The Earliest Known Versions

The zaju in this volume explore the consequences of loyalty and betrayal, ambition and enlightenment, and piety and drunkenness.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsA Note to the ReaderTable of DynastiesIntroductionConventions1. The Orphan of ZhaoThe Orphan of ZhaoThe Orphan of Zhao Greatly Wreaks Vengeance2. Huo Guang Remonstrates as a GhostNewly Printed in Hangzhou with Plot Prompts: Huo Guang Remonstrates as a Ghost3. Xue Rengui Returns Home Clad in BrocadeA Newly Cut Full Text: Xue Rengui Returns Home Clad in BrocadeA Selection of Yuan Plays Edition of the Zaju Xue Rengui Returns Home in Glory4. The Bamboo-Leaf BoatNewly Cut with Plot Prompts: Chen Jiqing Is Enlightened to the Way on a Bamboo-Leaf BoatA Selection of Yuan Plays Edition of the Zaju Chen Jiqing Mistakenly Boards a Bamboo-Leaf Boat5. Tippler Zhao Yuan Encounters the Prior EmperorNewly Cut with Plot Prompts: Tippler Zhao Yuan Encounters the Prior EmperorTippler Zhao Yuan Encounters the Prior Emperor6. The Affair of the Eastern Window ExposedNewly Printed at the Great Capital7. Little Butcher Zhang Immolates His Child to Save His MotherNewly Printed in Hangzhou: Little Butcher Zhang Immolates His Child to Save His MotherWorks Cited and Suggested Readings

About the author

Stephen G. West is professor of Chinese at Arizona State University. He is the author of Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays (with Wilt Idema). (Cambridge: Hackett Press, 2010); Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood: Early Chinese Plays on the Three Kingdoms (with Wilt Idema). (Cambridge: Hackett Press, 2012); The Generals of the Yang Family: Four Ming Plays (with Wilt Idema) (Singapore: World Scientific Press, 2013); and others.

Summary

The zaju in this volume explore the consequences of loyalty and betrayal, ambition and enlightenment, and piety and drunkenness.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen West, Stephen H. Idema West, Stephen Idema West
• Assisted by: Wilt Idema (Editor), Wilt (Professor of Chinese Literature Idema (Editor), Wilt L. Idema (Editor), Idema Wilt (Editor), Stephen West (Editor), Stephen H. West (Editor), West Stephen H. (Editor), Wilt L. Idema (Translation), Stephen H. West (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2014
• EAN: 9780231168540
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16854-0
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; DRAMA / General, Chinese, Plays, Playscripts, Theater; Chinese