In Search of Admiration and Respect: Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875-1974 - Couverture rigide

Zheng, Yanqiu

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0472076809 ISBN 13 : 9780472076802

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2024

Synopsis

Lively and critically aware, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad’s A Commentary on Plautus’ Curculio is the new reference text on the play. Curculio follows the efforts of the title character to trick a sex-trafficker into handing over an enslaved woman to the young man infatuated with her instead of to the soldier who’s paid for her—and will turn out to be her long-lost brother. As Plautus’ shortest comedy, Curculio has proven to be a desirable text for university performances. The play exemplifies Plautus’ style, with a blend of erotic, deception, and recognition plotlines, plus a wide range of archetypal characters. Gellar-Goad’s commentary is the complete package, with introductions to themes, content, humor, meter, and syntax; notes on matters of performance, interpretation, and social history; and a text with aids to scansion and clarifying stage directions. This up-to-date, authoritative commentary on the play will prove useful to directors and actors and will readily introduce students to the joys of Roman comedy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yanqiu Zheng is a historian of China in the world and is the Associate Director of Asia and Pacific Programs at St. Lawrence University's Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and Intercultural Studies. He led the China and the Global South project, supported by the Ford Foundation, at the Social Science Research Council.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472076809
• ISBN 13: 9780472076802
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 268
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