By Cyril Birch
Mistress & Maid, one of many maximum tragedies of chinese language drama, is right here on hand for the 1st time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch offers the bittersweet story of Bella, daughter of the Wang relations, her maid Petal, and the younger pupil Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to give up her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to percentage "in lifestyles one room, in loss of life one tomb." The subversion of either traditional morality and the prepared marriage via shiny drama and witty comedian scenes makes this seventeenth-century play relatively leading edge. chinese language critics have hailed it as primarily innovative for its depiction of younger resistance to latter-day Confucian values, yet as Birch notes within the advent, "the glory of Mistress & Maid is the smooth delicacy of the enthusiasts' interactions." This intensity of feeling additionally distinguishes the play from others of the "talent-meets-beauty" style so usual throughout the late-imperial age.
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Ma, ge: If we tell Your Honor, you mustn’t get excited. There’s Miss Sun, Rarer-than-jade; there’s Miss Li, Emerald; there’s Miss Zhou, Iris; there’s Miss Wu, Lotus. But forget all these, there’s Miss Wang Jiaoniang, Bella, with beauty to shame fish into sinking, make wild geese drop from the sky screen the moon, cause flowers to hide their heads; peerless among the fairy throng prime goddess of them all. (Same tune) This Bella looks like a bodhisattva each feature in perfect harmony. Count ‘em again: creamy limbs hibiscus face one glimpse and your spirit soars.
Scene 5: In Search of a Beauty 33 ma, ge: That’s it, it’s your thingy that’s bothering you. shuai: Something to do with that. ma, ge: Go get Lovey Ding, she’ll fix it. shuai: Enough of this: that “floating world” shady retreats, painted chambers willow paths, flowery lanes I’ve roamed them all. What I’m missing is someone a wife for my room to lay on my bed for sport like mandarin ducks on a pond. ma, ge: No problem, take a proper wife and that’s it. shuai: That’s just what I’ve got in mind, to take a proper wife.
Petal: Miss, you look more attractive than ever today, with your cheeks unrouged and your hair in two chignons so glossy black. (Tune: Lan hua mei) Tousled clouds of hair bound in “Han palace” style. . (she straightens Bella’s hair) This hair ornament is going to fall out. Just at her temple a golden phoenix pin dangles aslant. And her dress so exquisite, she has put on a richly brocaded “lotus fiber” gown. Madam is waiting for you in the hall, Miss. So hesitant, as you pass by fine gauze drapes patterned with fresh plum blossom —surely shy maiden of Witch’s Mount bashful before the clouds and rain of love!