Xueqin and Xakespeare

ISBN-13: 9781032635545 / Twarda / 2024 / 326 str.

Judith Forsyth

Opis

This book offers a detailed consideration of the iconic five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin, translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in five Acts. 

Spis treści

Introduction: The Story of the Stone: a ‘Shakespearean’ translation

 

Chapter One           ‘Look here upon this picture’; ‘Gag his mouth. Beat him to  death’: patriarchal authority in Hamlet and The Story of the Stone. 

 

Chapter Two          ‘Such a perusal of my face’; ‘The snow-white arm’: romantic love and tragic heroines in Hamlet and The Story of the Stone.

 

Chapter Three        ‘But long before you died your heart was slain’.1.5.143

The Story of the Stone and the challenge of the shrew:

Wang Xi-feng as tragic heroine.

 

Selected Bibliography

 

Index

O autorze

Judith Forsyth is a Shakespeare scholar with a long and enduring interest in Chinese literary culture.  The language barrier inhibited serious critical enquiry until the advent of the ‘Shakespearean’ English translation of The Story of the Stone by David Hawkes and John Minford opened up the potential this book explores for detailed cultural exchange between the two great writers William Shakespeare and Cao Xueqin.