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Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket of Confucianism, the Chinese made the most of recent developments in poetry and drama. Yuan plays were a tonic, an amazing spectacle - colorful outbursts of singing, dancing, music, acting and mime. They poured new life into old stories - oppressors were ridiculed, servants became masters, scenes changed, day followed night in the twinkling of an eye - and audiences flocked to enjoy what must have been complete entertainment.This volume contains six of the best Yuan plays, together with an introduction to the genre and a brief essay on each play.
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Six Yuan Plays, Liu Jung-En
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 1972
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- Six Yuan Plays
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Liu Jung-En
- Vydavateľ
- Penguin Classics
- Rok vydania
- 1972
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 0140442626
- ISBN13
- 9780140442625
- Série
- Štítky
- Divadelné hry, Čína, Čínska literatúra
- Hodnotenie
- 3,75 z 5
- Anotácia
- Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the straight-jacket of Confucianism, the Chinese made the most of recent developments in poetry and drama. Yuan plays were a tonic, an amazing spectacle - colorful outbursts of singing, dancing, music, acting and mime. They poured new life into old stories - oppressors were ridiculed, servants became masters, scenes changed, day followed night in the twinkling of an eye - and audiences flocked to enjoy what must have been complete entertainment.This volume contains six of the best Yuan plays, together with an introduction to the genre and a brief essay on each play.