Couple of Soles - A Comic Play From Seventeenth-Century China

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, it provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on the Translation
Introduction, by Jing Shen
Dramatis Personae and Their Role Categories
Preface, by Wang Duanshu
Scenes
A Couple of Soles
Appendix: The Playwright and His Art, by Jing Shen
Notes
Bibliography

About the author

Robert E. Hegel (Columbia PhD) is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature in Arts and Sciences and Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Washington University, St. Louis. His publications include Reading Illustrated Fiction in Late Imperial China (Stanford, 1998) and The Novel in Seventeenth Century China (Columbia, 1981) as well asthe translated volume Idle Talk Under the Bean Arbor: A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Collection (Washington, 2017) and numerous edited collections, book chapters, and articles.

Summary

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, it provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China.

Additional text

This brilliant book combines excellent scholarship about the innovative seventeenth-century dramatist Li Yu, noted for his unrestrained speech and behavior, with a wonderful translation of one of his comedies. Both translators have established reputations in the field of Chinese drama and literature, which this book will certainly enhance.

Product details

• Authors: Li Yu, LI (Book Review Editor Yu, Yu Li
• Assisted by: Robert Hegel (Translation), Robert E. Hegel (Translation), Hegel Robert E. (Translation), Jing Shen (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780231193542
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19354-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Cl
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; DRAMA / Asian / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: plays and playwrights