A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China

by Li Yu

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231193556

ISBN13:9780231193559

Release Date:December 2019

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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