竇娥寃 by Hanqing Guan

"竇娥寃" by Hanqing Guan is a Chinese zaju play written during the Yuan dynasty (c. 1241–1320). The story follows Dou E, a young widow who is wrongly convicted of murder by a corrupt official after rejecting a suitor's advances. Before her execution, she prophesies three supernatural events to prove her innocence: blood will not touch the ground, snow will fall in midsummer, and drought will strike for three years. When all three occur, her ghost seeks justice through her father, now a government official. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Guan, Hanqing, 1210?-1298?
Title 竇娥寃
Alternate Title Dou E Yuan
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Injustice_to_Dou_E
Credits Produced by Shi Ting Ling
Language Chinese
LoC Class PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Subject Chinese drama (Tragedy)
Category Text
EBook-No. 24004
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