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The Moon Prayer Pavilion
As the Mongols overrun the north, two young people separated from their families travel together, fall in love and are parted again. The Moon Prayer Pavilion is a tender romance of war and refugees, and one of the four great southern dramas. It is a moving story of chance, loyalty and love amid upheaval. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Stage directions and role names are kept, and the sung arias are rendered as verse, so the play can be read like a script or imagined on the stage. Chinese drama mixes speech, song, comedy and spectacle; the plays were performed for centuries, and their stories are still known to every Chinese reader.
