Worldly Stage : Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China /

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"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volpp, Sophie, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Chinesisch.
Drama.
Gesellschaftsleben.
Theater.
Cultural performance.
Chinese drama.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > Playwriting.
Chinese drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Theater > China > History > 17th century.
China.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Significance of theatricality in seventeenth-century China
  • Performance practice and stage architecture
  • Theatricality and pedagogy in Tang Xianzu's Mudan Ting (The Peony Pavilion)
  • Illusion and allusion: the theatricality of gender and history in Wang Jide's Nan Wanghou (The male queen)
  • Literary consumption of actors in seventeenth-century China
  • Storyteller Liu Jingting : the theatricality of the "vernacular" in Kong Shangren's Taohua Shan (The peach blossom fan)
  • Conclusion.

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