1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China
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1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

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1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

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The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field of drama studies. In June 2014 (the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth), SOAS, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and the National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan gathered 20 scholars together to reflect on the theatrical practice of four hundred years ago and to ask: what does such an exploration mean culturally for us today? This ground-breaking study offers fresh insights into the respective theatrical worlds of Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu and asks how the brave new theatres of 1616 may have a vital role to play in the intercultural dialogue of our own time.

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Publisher
The Arden Shakespeare
Year
2016
ISBN
9781472583444
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria asiatica

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword by Wilt L. Idema, Harvard University
  10. Introduction by Tian Yuan Tan, Paul Edmondson, Shih-pe Wang
  11. 1 Setting the scene: playwrights and localities
  12. 2 Classics, tastes and popularity
  13. 3 Making history
  14. 4 The state and the theatre
  15. 5 The circulation of dramatic texts and printing
  16. 6 Dramatic authorship and collaboration
  17. 7 Audiences, critics and reception
  18. 8 Music and performance
  19. 9 Theatre in theory and practice
  20. 10 Theatre across genres and cultures
  21. Afterword by Stanley Wells, CBE, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
  22. Works cited
  23. Index