THE FLOWER PRINCESS (Dae Neui Fa or Din?hua in Mandarin) has become the most renowned Cantonese Opera since its 1957 premier in Hong Kong. The opera is a serious political drama played out between the Han and non-Han following the fall of the Ming dynasty, and the plot pits romantic love against the lofty Confucian ideals of social hierarchy and moral rectitude. This is the first complete English translation of the opera, featuring text, song titles, speech types, and choreographic and stage setting. It also contains a foreword by Pak Suet Sin (Bai Xuexian), the celebrated Cantonese Opera actress who created the role of the Princess in the original production.
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Publisher
The Chinese University of Hong KongeBook ISBN
9789629963743
Year
2010Table of contents
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Original Cast
- The Characters
- Act I. Pledge by the Tree
- Act II. The Calamity
- Act III. Seeking the Corpse
- Act IV. Meeting at the Nunnery
- Act V. Escorting the Phoenix
- Act VI. Presenting the Petition
- Act VII. Double Suicide
- Glossary
- Pronunciation Guide for the Cantonesedialect (Yale System)
- Chinese Version