1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

ISBN-13: 9781472583413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 352 str.

Paul Edmondson

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Foreword by Wilt L. Idema, Harvard University Introduction by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, Shih-pe Wang 1) Setting the Scene: Playwrights and Localities - Yongming Xu, ‘The Backdrop of Regional Theatre to Tang Xianzu’s Drama’ - Paul Edmondson, ‘Stratford-upon-Avon: 1616’ 2) Classics, Tastes, and Popularity - Wei Hua, ‘The “Popular Turn”in the Elite Theatre of the Ming after Tang Xianzu: Love, Dream, and Deaths in The Tale of the West Loft’ - Nick Walton, ‘Blockbusters and Popular Stories’ 3) Making History - Ayling Wang, ‘Shishiju as Public Forum: The Crying Phoenix and the Dramatization of Current Political Affairs in Late Ming China’ - Helen Cooper, ‘Dramatizing the Tudors’ 4) The State and the Theatre - Tian Yuan Tan, ‘Sixty Plays from the Ming Palace, 1615-1618’ - Janet Clare, ‘Licensing the King’s Men: From Court Revels to Public Performance’ 5) The Transmission of Dramatic Texts and Printing - Stephen H. West, ‘Tired, Sick, and Looking for Money: Zang Maoxun in 1616’ - Jason Scott-Warren, ‘Status Anxiety: Arguing about Plays and Print in Early Modern London’ 6) Dramatic Authorship and Collaboration - Patricia Sieber, ‘Is There a Playwright in This Text? The 1610s and the Consolidation of Dramatic Authorship in Late Ming Print Culture’ - Peter Kirwan, ‘“May I subscribe a name?”: Terms of Collaboration in 1616’ 7) Audiences, Critics, and Reception - Shih-pe Wang, ‘Revising Peony Pavilion: Audience Reception in Presenting Tang Xianzu’s Text’ - Anjna Chouhan, ‘“No epilogue, I pray you”: Audience Reception in Shakespearian Theatre’ 8) Music and Performance - Mei Sun, ‘Seeking the Relics of Music and Performance: An Investigation of Chinese Theatrical Scenes Published in the Early Seventeenth Century (1606–1616)’ - David Lindley, ‘Music in the English theatre of 1616’ 9) Theatre in Theory and Practice - Regina Llamas, ‘Xu Wei’s A Record of Southern Drama: The Idea of a Theatre at the Turn of Seventeenth-Century China’ - Will Tosh, ‘Taking Cover: 1616 and the Move Indoors’ 10) Theatre across Genres and Cultures - Xiaoqiao Ling, ‘Elite Drama Readership Staged in Vernacular Fiction: The Western Wing and The Retrieved History of Hailing’ - Kate McLuskie, ‘“There be salmons in both”: Models of Connection for Seventeenth-Century English and Chinese Drama’ Afterword by Stanley Wells, CBE, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Notes on Contributors List of Cited Works