Men in this town were born with mouths that can right wrongs with a few words. Why are you too timid to speak? As she is about to be executed for a murder she didn't commit, young widow Dou Yi vows that, if she is innocent, snow will fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will strike. Three years later, a businesswoman visits the parched, locust-plagued town to take over an ailing factory. When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost, the new factory owner must expose the injustices Dou Yi suffered before the curse destroys every living thing. A contemporary re-imagining by acclaimed playwright Frances-Ya Chu Cowhig of one of the most famous classical Chinese dramas, which breathes new life into this ancient story, haunted by centuries of retelling. The world premiere of Snow in Midsummer on 23 February 2017 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon, launched the Rsc's Chinese Translations Project, a cultural exchange bringing Chinese classics to a contemporary Western audience.

Snow In Midsummer (Modern Plays)

Literature & Fiction

Hanqing, Guan

Dramas & Plays

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing

Containing eight plays by the magnificent Guan Hanqing, the "Shakespeare of China." Hanqing lived in the 13th century, at the height of the Yuan Dynasty. An actor himself, he is said to have written more than 60 plays for the traveling theater groups which flourished on the mainland in those days. His works concerned history, deception, treachery, men, women, and the abuse of official power. Also of note are the powerful and resourceful women he gives in such comedies as "Rescued by a Coquette," the portrayals of middle-class life back then, and not a bit of bawdy humor.

Selected Plays Of Guan Hanqing

Yang, Gladys

Silk Pagoda

Guan Hanqing (c. 1241-1320), also known under the sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio", was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty. He has been described as among the most prolific and highly regarded dramatists of the Yuan period. Guan spent much of his later life in Dadu and produced about 65 plays, mostly in the vernacular of the time. The complete texts of three of his most popular extant plays are included in this volume.

The Injustice to Dou E, Death of the Winged-Tiger General, and the Jade Mirror Stand (Chinese Edition)

JiaHu Books

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