A Study On The Thematic, Narrative, And Musical Structure Of Guan Hanqing's Yuan ?Aju, Injustice To Dou E?(Currents In Comparative Romance Languages And Literatures)

This book is a study of the thematic, narrative, and musical structure of Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] edition of the Yuan zaju (variety play) Dou E yuan [Injustice to Dou E] originally composed by the highly regarded playwright Guan Hanqing (fl. 1260). Although other authors have studied these three aspects of Dou E yuan separately, this is the first comprehensive treatment of the topic as a scholarly monograph in English. Yumin Ao's analysis is based on the edition of the play in the Yuanqu xuan [A Selection of Yuan Plays] compiled by the Ming publisher Zang Maoxun (ca. 1550-1620). Ao proposes that Dou E yuan, as a dramatic narrative which develops through its enactment on the stage rather than by verbal presentation as a story, displays its integrative structure of narration through its thematic development and within its musical conventions.

• • Author: Yumin Ao
• • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• • Publication Date: Sep 30, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 233 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1433130556
• • ISBN-13: 9781433130557