Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays

This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250–1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English; they are each provided with illuminating, scholarly introductions that are yet fully intelligible to the educated lay reader. A marvelous volume.--Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania

• The Confessions of Lady Nijo
• Vis and Ramin (Penguin Classics)
• The Story of the Western Wing
• The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
• The Lays of Marie de France (Hackett Classics)
• The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)
• The Song of the Cid (Penguin Classics) A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
• The Lute: Kao Ming's P'i-p'a chi
• The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Penguin Classics)
• Scenes for Mandarins