"Mistress & Maid, " one of the greatest tragedies of
Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English.
Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of
Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young
scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact,
Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has
vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The
subversion of both conventional morality and the arranged marriage
through vivid drama and witty comic scenes makes this
seventeenth-century play particularly innovative. Chinese critics
have hailed it as essentially revolutionary for its depiction of
youthful resistance to latter-day Confucian values, but as Birch
notes in the introduction, "the glory of "Mistress & Maid" is
the tender delicacy of the lovers' interactions." This depth of
feeling also distinguishes the play from others of the
"talent-meets-beauty" genre so prevalent during the late-imperial
age.
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