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A 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. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her family's acting troupe, and, in plays within the play, romance ensues. After Liu's family att...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Li, Yu, 1611-1680? (Author)
Other Authors: Shen, Jing (Translator), Hegel, Robert E., 1943- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Chino
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Series:Translations from the Asian classics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Table 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