A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century - Scholar's Choice Edition

A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century - Scholar's Choice Edition
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Synopsis A Young Squire of the Seventeenth Century - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Christopher Jeaffreson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Couple of Soles

A Couple of Soles
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780231550369
ISBN-13 : 0231550367
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Synopsis A Couple of Soles by : Li Yu

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her family’s acting troupe, and, in plays within the play, romance ensues. After Liu’s family attempts to marry her off to a local country squire, she performs a famous scene in which a heroine drowns herself—and then jumps off the stage into a river, followed by Tan. The local river deity rescues the lovers from death by transforming them into a pair of soles. Li balances their romance with the adventures of a retired upright official involving banditry, bribery, and mistaken identity—and who nets and shelters the two fish when they regain human form. Written at a time when China was beginning to recover from the cataclysmic Ming-Qing dynastic transition, A Couple of Soles displays Li’s biting wit as well as his reflections on the concerns of his age, including the dangers of administrative service and the role of theater in society. The play combines witty wordplay and caustic satire with a strong emphasis on traditional moral values. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, A Couple of Soles provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China. A general introduction and a detailed appendix shed further light on the play and its context.

The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
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Total Pages : 720
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101077276358
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The Athenaeum

The Athenaeum
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Total Pages : 832
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:L0063912836
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Synopsis The Athenaeum by : James Silk Buckingham

Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte

Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780226401607
ISBN-13 : 022640160X
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Synopsis Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte by : Emily Wilbourne

In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell’arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi’s lost L’Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d’Ulisse and L’incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli’s L’Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli’s L’Ormindo and L’Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell’arte theater—specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play—produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.

The academy

The academy
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Total Pages : 850
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ISBN-10 : BSB:BSB11367164
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“The” Athenaeum

“The” Athenaeum
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Total Pages : 904
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ISBN-10 : ONB:+Z317218703
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The Literary World

The Literary World
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Total Pages : 430
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081647079
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