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The Peony Pavilion (Classical Chinese Love Stories) (Classic Love Stories)
Du Liniang has a dream in which she meets a young scholar and promises to marry him. When she wakes up, she yearns for her lover and falls ill; after a while she dies of lovesickness. the young scholar in her dream, Liu Mengmei, later made his way to the capital to take the imperial examination. There, he meets Du Liniang's soul at Plum Blossom Nunnery and agrees to help her return to life by reuniting her soul with her body. They are successful and live happily ever after.
Format:Paperback
Language:Chinese
ISBN:7800054330
ISBN13:9787800054334
Release Date:January 1999
Publisher:New World Press
Length:225 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Great Play, Brilliant Translation
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Tang Xiansu was a contemporary of Shakespeare (and Cervantes!). His masterpiece, _The Peony Pavilion_, a musical drama in the Kunqu style, is Shakespearean in its literary quality--as translated by Cyril Birch--and super-Shakespearean in its length and scope. Its 55 scenes, playing 20 hours, include all of Shakespeare's genres: romance, history, comedy, tragedy, lyric poetry. A magnificent work and vital theatre as done complete in New York in 1999. Birch's brief intro helps you get into the piece; his short book, "Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming" (Columbia University Press), tells more and also introduces other playwrights and plays in his elegant translations.
Great Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I love this book. It's so romantic and it has a lot of suspense in it.
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