Nguyen Cong Tru in his literature: From an amateurish confucian figure to a playful human being

Studying Nguyen Cong Tru’s literature has brought certain achievements. Yet, focusing on the aspect of pleasure, considering it as a play of his works, is what has not yet been dealt with. To approach this, firstly, we need to put Nguyen Cong Tru into the Confucian intellectual context of the late medieval age in Vietnam; secondly, it is important to pile up his poetic texts and to examine them from the perspective of play theory.