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The Palace of Eternal Youth
The Tang emperor Xuanzong and his consort Yang Guifei love each other so much that the empire falls, and she is executed at Mawei. The Palace of Eternal Youth follows them from the palace to the moon, a vast and beautiful Qing drama. It combines history, politics and a love story with gods, ghosts and the Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Robe dance. 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.
