Fu Yu (Chinese: 傅瑜; pinyin: Fù Yú) was a Chinese zaju actor of the Ming dynasty, who performed in Nanjing during the second half of the 16th century.
Career
editFu Yu was a member of the Nanjing-based commercial troupe led by the actor Hao Kecheng (郝可成).[1] When he was young, he was "exceedingly beautiful" and rose to fame by playing dan (women) roles. In his 20s, he switched to playing sheng (young male) roles, and after age 40, wai (older male) roles.[2] He became a trainer of the troupe but did not quit the stage. When the theatre critic Pan Zhiheng saw him in his old age, he remarked on the veteran's "dignified" poise and "resounding" voice.[2]
Children
editFu Yu and his wife, née Chen (陳), had a boy named Fu Mao (傅卯) and a girl named Fu Shou (傅壽, courtesy name Lingxiu 靈修). Trained by their father, the siblings began performing as young teens to great acclaim.[3][4] Fu Shou, who was skilled in both the northern tune (beiqu) of zaju and the southern tune of the young kunqu,[5] was highly popular when she later became a courtesan-actress.[6] Fu Mao possibly played dan roles initially before switching to sheng roles like his father.[7]
References
edit- ^ Xia, p. 127.
- ^ a b Shen, p. 397.
- ^ Xia, p. 233.
- ^ Shen, pp. 258–59.
- ^ Zheng, Yiren (2021). Sounding Awry: Unusual Voices and the Problem of Speech in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Chicago. pp. 73–74.
- ^ He, Yuemin (2019). Editorship, Canonicity and Nostalgia in Wang Duanshu’s Collection of Elegance (1667) (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). Newcastle University. p. 308.
- ^ Guo, Chao (2018). Shifting Gender Roles: Male Dan in Chinese Theatre (PDF) (Thesis). University of Otago. p. 56–57.
- Shen, Guangren Grant (1994). Theatre Performance During the Ming Dynasty (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaii. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-11-05. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- Xia Taidi (夏太娣) (2007). 晚明南京剧坛研究 ("Wan Ming Nanjing jutan yanjiu") [On Nanjing's Drama Scene of the Late-Ming Period] (Ph.D. thesis) (in Chinese). East China Normal University.
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