The West Wing, where Tsui Yingying waited for the moon
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The West Wing, where Tsui Yingying waited for the moon
9.99 €
"The Western Wing, Where Tsui Yingying Awaited the Moon" is a play that tells a story as old as the world - about the love of a girl and a boy who are not stopped by distance, tradition or class boundaries. But thanks to this work, Wang Shifu entered the pantheon of the best Chinese playwrights of all time. The place that "The Western Wing" occupies in Chinese culture is equal to that occupied by Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" in European culture. Only Wang Shifu's play has a happy ending.
"The Western Wing" had a huge influence on the development of Chinese drama and literature and has not left the stage of Chinese theater for seven hundred years. They tried to ban the play for "immorality", but, like its heroes, it overcame all obstacles on the way to viewers, listeners, readers. And for several centuries, the story of Yingying and Zhang Gong has invariably inspired artists. Plots from the play decorated ceramics, fabrics, screens and scrolls. And of course, books with the text of "The Western Wing" were often accompanied by illustrations - some of them are included in the current edition.
In Russian, the drama is published in the classic translation of the famous orientalist Lev Menshikov, the book includes an article and comments.
"The Western Wing" had a huge influence on the development of Chinese drama and literature and has not left the stage of Chinese theater for seven hundred years. They tried to ban the play for "immorality", but, like its heroes, it overcame all obstacles on the way to viewers, listeners, readers. And for several centuries, the story of Yingying and Zhang Gong has invariably inspired artists. Plots from the play decorated ceramics, fabrics, screens and scrolls. And of course, books with the text of "The Western Wing" were often accompanied by illustrations - some of them are included in the current edition.
In Russian, the drama is published in the classic translation of the famous orientalist Lev Menshikov, the book includes an article and comments.
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