Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals : Eleven Early Chinese Plays

"This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250¿1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English, they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader. A marvelous volume." ¿Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania