Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeenth-Century China

by Sophie Volpp

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 study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion ( Mudan ting ) and Kong Shangren's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674021444
• ISBN13: 9780674021440
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"