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Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword by Wilt L. Idema, (Harvard University, USA) Introduction: "Setting the Scene" by Tian Yuan Tan (SOAS, University of London, UK), Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK) and Shih-pe Wang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) 1) The Blockbusters and Popular Stories -- - Wei Hua (Chinese University of Hong Kong), "The "Popular Turn" in the Elite Theatre of the Ming after Tang Xianzu: Love, Dream, and Deaths in Tale of the West Chamber" -- - Nick Walton (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK) "Blockbusters and Popular Stories" 2) Making History -- - Ayling Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), "A New Form of Public Forum: Dramatizing Current Political Affairs on Stage in the Late-Ming Shishiju Crying Phoenix" -- - Helen Cooper (University of Cambridge, UK), "Dramatizing the Tudors" -- 3) The State and the Theatre; -- - Tian Yuan Tan (SOAS, University of London, UK), "Sixty Plays from the Ming Palace, 1615-1618" -- - Janet Clare (University of Hull, UK), "Licensing the King's Men: From Court Revels to Public Performance" -- 4) The Transmission of Dramatic Texts and Printing -- - Stephen H. West (University of California, Berkeley, USA), "Tired, Sick, and Looking for Money: Zang Maoxun in 1616" -- - Jason Scott-Warren (University of Cambridge, UK), "Status Anxiety: Arguing about Plays and Print in Early Modern London" -- 5) Audiences, Critics, and Reception -- - Shih-pe Wang (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan), "The Ways of Adapting Peony Pavilion around 1616: Different Viewpoints from Literati, Actors, Readers/Audience, and Critics" -- - Anjna Chouhan (University of Leicester, UK), "'No epilogue, I pray you': Audience Reception in Shakespearian Theatre" -- 6) Music and Performance -- - Mei Sun (National Central University, Taiwan), "Seeking the Relics of Music and Performance: An Investigation of Chinese Theatrical Scenes Published in the Early Seventeenth Century (1606-1616)" -- - David Lindley (University of Leeds, UK), "Music in the English theatre of 1616" -- 7) The Concept of Theatre and Its Performance Spaces -- - Regina Llamas (Stanford University, USA), "The Idea of a Theatre in Sixteenth-Century China: Xu Wei's (1521-1593) Nanci xulu" -- - Will Tosh (Shakespeare's Globe, UK), "Taking Cover: 1616 and the Move Indoors" -- 8) Dramatic Authorship and Collaboration -- - Patricia Sieber (Ohio State University, USA), "Will the Real Late Ming Playwright Stand Up? Social, Economic, and Literary Perspectives on Dramatic Authorship in China, 1545-1616" -- - Peter Kirwan (University of Nottingham, UK), "'May I subscribe a name?': Terms of Collaboration in 1616" -- 9) Localities -- - Yongming Xu (Zhejiang University, China), "The Backdrop of Regional Theatre to Tang Xianzu's Drama" -- - Paul Edmondson (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK), "Shakespearian Locales in 1616" -- 10) Drama, Poetry, and Other Literary Genres -- - Xiaoqiao Ling (Arizona State University, USA), "Elite Drama Readership Staged in Vernacular Fiction: The Western Chamber and The Retrieved History of Hailing" -- - Kathleen E. McLuskie (University of Birmingham, UK), "'There be salmons in both': Models of Connection for Seventeenth-Century English and Chinese Drama" Afterword by Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK). |