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As one of the founders of modern Chinese drama, Tian Han's works not only profoundly reflect social reality, but are also known for their unique poetry and romantic spirit. "Returning to the South", as his early work, profoundly embodies this artistic style. The characters in the script "Returning to the South" are distinct and typical. Chun'er's infatuation and perseverance, Zhengming's simplicity and honesty, Mr. Xin's romance and wandering, and the mother's reality and helplessness, together create a vivid picture of life. There is no absolute right or wrong for these characters. Various choices are derived from their respective positions and emotions, showing the conflict between idealism and realism in a specific era.

As a dramatist, Zhao Shuli has written many drama scripts. He is deeply involved in local operas such as Shangdang Bangzi, which not only retains the characteristics of traditional opera, but also makes bold breakthroughs. Such as the adaptations of "Three Passes Banquet", "Ye Palace Pictures", "Han Yuniang", etc. "Sanguan Banquet" is adapted from Shangdang Bangzi's traditional play "Loyalty and Filial Piety Festival". It tells the story of the peace negotiation between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom. Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom went to the Sanguan Banquet in person. The accompanying person turned out to be Yang Yanhui, the fourth son of the Yang family who surrendered to the Liao Kingdom more than ten years ago. Yang Yanhui was frightened in his heart, but his wife Princess Peach Blossom was still willing to deal with it after learning the truth. At the "Three Passes Banquet", Taijun She used the wine cup as a guide to reveal the secret secretly, and Queen Mother Xiao was shocked. This play demonstrates the moral principle of advocating loyalty with its exquisite layout. The script "Picture of Ye Palace" is based on the tyrannical rule of Zhao Tianwang Shihu after the Sixteen Kingdoms period. "Han Yuniang" also has a plot twist: in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, a Henan woman named Han Yuniang was captured by the Jin soldiers. She was used as a tool by Zhang Wanfu's subordinate Ma Erhu and forcibly betrothed to Chen Pengju, a scholar who was also captured, in order to win people's hearts. In the bridal chamber, the two complained about the sufferings of their family and country. Yuniang learned that Yue's army was approaching and persuaded Pengju to join the army to serve the country. However, this triggered a series of tragedies. In the end, Han Yuniang died and her husband rushed to the front line. The balance between artistry and rationality, the game of dominance and resistance, and the intensive cultivation of the quintessence of drama give Zhao Shuli's drama a strong spiritual core.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, a genius playwright; Paul Newman's classic original script for the screen, life is a wild dream; the complex character creation shows the cunning and fragility of human nature, a classic case of the American Film Institute. This book is a three-act play by Tennessee Williams. It was first performed in 1959 and the film version was released in 1962. The work tells the story of Chance Wayne, a young man from the American South whose mind and tongue are accustomed to racing wild horses, and his awakening from a broken dream. For his wild dream, he did not hesitate to get close to an older and outdated female star, trying to use her to knock on the door of destiny and make a name for himself in the entertainment industry, even if his knuckles were bloody. He returned to his hometown with the intention of restarting his old youthful dream, but found that his once pure and flawless youth with a clear conscience would never return. He had spent half his life fighting under the iron curtain of profit, leaving only despairing ambitions and withered laurels.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, a genius playwright; a classic in film history by Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, and one of Williams' three masterpieces; a friendship that must never be acknowledged, and a family storm that is more violent than the storm outside the house. This play, along with "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", are known as Tennessee Williams' three masterpieces. The script tells the story of an extraordinary day in a large southern American family that relies entirely on lies to maintain their family ties: when the property, 28,000 acres of fertile land, is lent to the manor owner "Big Daddy" who is seriously ill and has recently passed away for his birthday, two sons with very different personalities and a pair of covetous sisters-in-law stage a family storm. The work focuses on the portrayal of Maggie, the young daughter-in-law who was born in poverty, who is as anxious and unremitting as a cat on a hot tin house because of her unsatisfied desires for love and money; and the heart-to-heart game between father and son, the eldest father and his younger son Brick, around "life is a deception", also shows the darkness and tearing of human nature. The play also won the author the Pulitzer Prize for the second time. It is one of the most famous repertoires in the American theater world; the film version starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor is also a classic in film history.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century and a talented playwright; the movie of the same name co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn is a classic of literary films; a crazy memory that cannot be removed by a scalpel, an ultimate shock of desire and disillusionment. This book is a one-act play created in 1957 by Tennessee Williams, the twentieth-century American drama master. It uses a large number of metaphors and hints to show the depravity of human nature and the oppression and control of love by greed in a modern society that flaunts scientific rationality. It premiered in 1958 and was later adapted for the screen, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn. The story takes place in New Orleans, USA, in 1936. In the name of funding medical research, a wealthy widow named Mrs. Venable asked doctors to perform a lobotomy on her niece Catherine. Regardless of whether the operation was successful or not, she begged the world not to believe the girl's nonsense. After contacting Catherine, the doctor discovered that her shocking words were not caused by a mental breakdown. Her so-called slander against her cousin - Mrs. Venable's son Sebastian, who died mysteriously on the Spanish coast last summer - was actually a woman's examination and accusation of the hypocrisy and cruelty in human nature in the name of love. As the truth is revealed. An umbilical cord used by an old mother to tie her precious son, a man entangled and suffocated by this umbilical cord, two women's unspeakable heart knots, and a strange and secret human struggle surfaced, revealing how the greedy jungle utilitarian law devours reason and kindness above the monetary interests of American southern society.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, a talented playwright; the original script of a classic film starring Richard Burton, a New York Drama Critics Award-winning work; a tribute to those who cry out for dignity and kindness. Williams' famous three-act play, first performed in December 1961. The play once again created the image of a homeless "fugitive clan". From the perspective of the tour guide Shannon - a weirdo in the eyes of everyone, a former priest who was stripped of his vestments - the whole world is the scope of his travels. He is not rigidly bound to the schedule in the brochure. He believes that as long as there are hearts that can be touched and emotions that can be felt, people should see as much of the lower society as possible everywhere. This fish, who dreams of swimming but is always intercepted and persecuted by sharks, has sympathy with a wandering female painter Hannah, who also advocates freedom and is despised. With Hannah's help, he fights his own demons, trying to break free like a trapped iguana about to be cooked by cutting a rope, crossing the dark corners of his nature, breaking down the barriers between people and making contact with each other.

One of the three greatest American dramatists of the 20th century and a genius playwright; Williams' classic work, the source of inspiration for Wong Kar-wai's "Days of Being Wild"; a footless bird looking for redemption in life. This book is a three-act play by Williams, first performed in 1957. Carrying a guitar, a snakeskin jacket and a body of hot and wild blood, mariachi Val arrives in a traditional southern town like a fox entering a henhouse. He and the soon-to-be-widowed candy store owner Lady-an Italian woman who almost broke her fingers trying to seize life-triggered each other, awakened their passions, and attempted to save each other from hell. However, love, the imaginary answer to life, fooled them again. On the night when the candy store was about to reopen sweetly, in a commotion that accumulated hatred, hatred, and jealousy, the man and woman who did not want to wither in the darkness were still chased by death. Williams transformed Orpheus, the charming god of poetry and music in Greek mythology, who was responsible for poetry and music, into the protagonist Val. He traveled to the American South in the 1950s due to a time and space displacement, and explored the relationship between love, desire and art, as shown in the introduction to this play. As written in , this work "functioned as a kind of emotional bridge, linking the early years of my life with my current existence as a playwright", allowing the playwright's heart scarred by jackdaws to be exposed without concealment.

This collection includes nine excellent plays by Hu Yepin, including "Other People's Happiness", "Ghost", "Madman", "Bricklayer's House", "Capitalist", "Ghosts and Human Hearts", etc. Most of Hu Yepin's drama creations were concentrated in the two years from 1927 to 1928. Even though the time was short, he left behind many important plays. Drama styles vary, often with a strong critical spirit. For example, "The Bricklayer's House" depicts the tragic situation of the bricklayer Wang Jishun's family in a realistic way. His daughter Ahong is abused as a servant, and her parents are ignorant and depraved. In the end, the daughter's fate drifts with the tide. "Ghost" uses a dream scene to allow the souls of the dead from different classes to meet after death, and exposes social injustice through their conversations. Its grotesque style is considered to be influenced by German Expressionist drama and has become an alternative highlight in his drama creation. "Rained Buds" is a sweet style that focuses on the free love of young students and the opposition of conservative parents. It uses the plot of "the conflict escalates but unexpectedly ends successfully" to reflect on the individual liberation and free thoughts on marriage and love during the May Fourth period, and affirms the new forces' breakthrough in old ideas. The two articles "The Capitalist" and "A Gentleman's Treat" directly point to class contradictions, expose the greed of capitalists, and praise the resistance of the people at the bottom. As one of the "Five Martyrs of the Left Alliance", Hu Yepin left behind a very rich literary legacy. He was a new force in the early stage of the left-wing drama movement and occupies a unique position in the history of modern Chinese drama.

This book is a play of the same name adapted by Wang Hailu and Wang Dayou based on the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning novel "Human World" by Liang Xiaosheng. It is set in a civilian community in a northern city called "Light Word Film" and tells the ups and downs of life stories of more than a dozen civilian children, including the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingkun, in the past fifty years. The fate of the protagonist is intertwined with the changes of the times, writing an epic life epic of contemporary Chinese people.

This book is a play of the same name adapted by Wang Hailu and Wang Dayou based on the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning novel "Human World" by Liang Xiaosheng. It is set in a civilian community in a northern city called "Light Word Film" and tells the ups and downs of life stories of more than a dozen civilian children, including the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingkun, in the past fifty years. The fate of the protagonist is intertwined with the changes of the times, writing an epic life epic of contemporary Chinese people.

This book is a play of the same name adapted by Wang Hailu and Wang Dayou based on the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning novel "Human World" by Liang Xiaosheng. It is set in a civilian community in a northern city called "Light Word Film" and tells the ups and downs of life stories of more than a dozen civilian children, including the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingkun, in the past fifty years. The fate of the protagonist is intertwined with the changes of the times, writing an epic life epic of contemporary Chinese people.

This book is a play of the same name adapted by Wang Hailu and Wang Dayou based on the Mao Dun Literature Award-winning novel "Human World" by Liang Xiaosheng. It is set in a civilian community in a northern city called "Light Word Film" and tells the ups and downs of life stories of more than a dozen civilian children, including the three brothers and sisters of the Zhou family, Zhou Bingyi, Zhou Rong, and Zhou Bingkun, in the past fifty years. The fate of the protagonist is intertwined with the changes of the times, writing an epic life epic of contemporary Chinese people.

Eliot's 60th anniversary edition; "My life is an inadvertent bit of waste in an orderly universe." Reproduces the murder scene that shocked the Middle Ages and illuminates the spiritual wasteland of modern people. This book is based on the translation of the drama part of "The Complete Poems and Dramas of Thomas Eliot" published by Faber Publishing House in 1969. It includes Eliot's five major dramas: "The Cathedral Murders", the most famous British poetic drama since the seventeenth century, which combines elements of Greek drama and detective drama in the mid-twelfth century, and shows the main themes. "Family Reunion", a work about the hero's self-redemption process; Eliot's most popular play "The Cocktail Party", which explores the twisted outlook on life; "Secretary", the only drama on the New York Times bestseller list in the past thirty years; and the author's last work "The Elder Statesman". His realistic approach and storyline, as well as his pursuit of deep symbolic meaning in his works, had a huge influence on the playwrights of his generation.

The influence of the Surrealist movement, the spiritual shock brought by his trip to America in 1929, and the emotional and psychological crisis he experienced changed Lorca's understanding of drama. He began to experiment with surrealism in his theater practice to explore new breakthroughs in drama structure, characters, and themes. This led to the creation of "The Love of Dom Perrin and Belisa in the Garden," "The Audience," and "Five Years Like This". These three alternative works were particularly subversive in his entire drama creation, in sharp contrast to his "Country Trilogy" with realism as the main style. One of them, "The Spectator," was even called an "impossible drama" by Lorca himself. These three dramas embody the author's poetic and aesthetic concepts. Behind the plots of the dramas are the author's profound thoughts on "how drama shows reality" and "what is reality". And deep thinking about "what is reality".

Ancient Greek drama is the oldest drama in the world and the source of the literary genre of drama. It originated in the sixth century BC and reached its peak in the fifth century BC. As a treasure of ancient literature in the world, ancient Greek drama has lasted more than two thousand years, but its touching plots, profound thoughts and superb skills can still impress people today. This translation is exclusive to our company. The translator Luo Niansheng directly translated the representative tragedies "Prometheus Bound", "Oedipus the King", "Medea" and the comedy "Knights" from ancient Greek. It portrays the hero Prometheus who was tortured for stealing fire from mankind in the ancient Greek era, and Oedipus the King who shows the struggle between human will and destiny. It praises human heroes and beautiful emotions, exposes the corruption of rulers, and displays the history and culture of ancient Greece.

The plays Shakespeare wrote throughout his life include historical dramas, comedies and tragedies, which belong to three creative periods with their own emphasis. In comedy, Shakespeare achieved high achievements. The humanists of the Renaissance held beautiful ideals and believed deeply that the future of mankind was infinitely bright. This spirit of optimism was the keynote of Shakespeare's comedy creations. This book selects five representative comedies among these, namely "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Twelfth Night", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "As You Like It", collectively known as "Shakespeare's Five Comedies". Zhu Shenghao's translation is distinctive in quality and style, with beautiful and clear diction and distinctive characters. It is an artistic treasure cherished by readers and recognized by Shakespeare researchers at home and abroad. Since its publication by our publisher, the book has been revised by successive generations of experts, scholars and editors. It has condensed the wisdom of the academic community on Shakespeare research and has been recognized by readers over the years.

The plays Shakespeare wrote throughout his life include historical dramas, comedies and tragedies, which belong to his three creative periods with different emphasis. Among them, the tragedies written in the later period concentrated his life wisdom, reflected various contradictions and conflicts of human nature that can be included in the two ethical categories of good and evil, and inspired human beings to have a profound understanding of themselves and the society they live in. They are the essence of his art and the mystery of his outlook on life. This book selects the five most representative and popular tragedies among these tragedies, namely "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", collectively known as "Shakespeare's Five Tragedies". The translator of this book is the famous translator Zhu Shenghao. His translation is of extremely high quality, distinctive style, and catchy reading. It has been widely recognized by readers and researchers at home and abroad since it was first published. Since our company first published Zhu Shenghao's translation of Shakespeare's works, we have been constantly optimizing and upgrading them. This edition has been revised and revised by scholars and editors, and is supplemented by a preface to the translation by Mr. Lu Yuan. It is of high quality and is suitable for readers of all ages.

"Ibsen's Dramas" includes translator Pan Jiaxun's translation of Ibsen's masterpieces - four major "social issue dramas" in the mid-term creative stage: "Pillars of Society", "A Doll's House", "Ghosts" and "Enemy of the People". Ibsen's social problem plays criticize social ugliness, promote individual liberation, analyze social problems from many aspects based on the reality of life, expose and criticize various shortcomings of bourgeois society, and touch on various fields such as law, religion, morality, and even the country, political parties, and systems. Among them, "Between the Dolls" translated by Pan Jiaxun had a huge social impact during the "May Fourth Movement" and played a great role in promoting the New Culture Movement. Pan Jiaxun's translation of Ibsen's plays is recognized as a classic because of its extremely high literary, academic and historical value and has far-reaching influence. Our company has the exclusive copyright.

Shakespeare's classic comedy. Zhu Shenghao's classic translation, a Chinese-English bilingual version, allows you to intuitively experience the charm of Shakespeare's language. "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a very representative comedy work by Shakespeare. It tells the love story of lovers who finally get married. This work has a huge influence in the history of world literature and drama. Although the story in the play takes place in the ancient Greek period, the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play are based on the real life in Britain at that time, reflecting the struggle of new women at that time for the right to free love and independent marriage. Through the contrast of real emotions and the magic forest, and the coexistence of real characters and the fairy king of the forest, it expresses the humanistic ideal of equal coexistence between people and harmonious coexistence between man and nature. If this drama offends you, just think of it as a dream.

"The Ferocious Swan: Neorealist Film and Literature Stories (2)" consists of two independent film and literary scripts: "The Ferocious Swan" and "Old Bean of Bauhinia". "The Fierce Swan" is based on real people and true stories. It tells a touching story of an ordinary farmer who participated in the protection of migratory birds and launched a fierce struggle against illegal poachers. The character prototype won the Touching China Award. "Redbud Old Bean" tells the story of misunderstanding and reconciliation between a policeman and his adolescent son. It is full of true feelings.

This book provides a platform for the textual research of Chinese popular literature. The book takes the study of ancient operas and popular literature as its main object, features empirical research, attaches great importance to the discovery and utilization of first-hand documentary materials, and emphasizes the investigation, cataloging, and textual research of basic literature. It especially emphasizes the research of textual research on literature and materials, that is, it focuses on author research, important event research, edition literature research, collection of catalogs for collectors at home and abroad, research on rare documents, and collection and interpretation of new literature materials. Opera, popular literature, literature, and empirical evidence are the key words that distinguish this book from other similar publications.

This book provides a platform for the textual research of Chinese popular literature. The book takes the study of ancient operas and popular literature as its main object, features empirical research, attaches great importance to the discovery and utilization of first-hand documentary materials, and emphasizes the investigation, cataloging, and textual research of basic literature. It especially emphasizes the research of textual research on literature and materials, that is, it focuses on author research, important event research, edition literature research, collection of catalogs for collectors at home and abroad, research on rare documents, and collection and interpretation of new literature materials. Opera, popular literature, literature, and empirical evidence are the key words that distinguish this book from other similar publications.

This book provides a platform for the textual research of Chinese popular literature. The book takes the study of ancient operas and popular literature as its main object, features empirical research, attaches great importance to the discovery and utilization of first-hand documentary materials, and emphasizes the investigation, cataloging, and textual research of basic literature. It especially emphasizes the research of textual research on literature and materials, that is, it focuses on author research, important event research, edition literature research, collection of catalogs for collectors at home and abroad, research on rare documents, and collection and interpretation of new literature materials. Opera, popular literature, literature, and empirical evidence are the key words that distinguish this book from other similar publications.

The legal system of the Yuan Dynasty reflected the development and progress of China's traditional legal system. However, the legal system of the Yuan Dynasty, with its perfect form, progressive content, and tolerant guiding ideology, showed another face in Yuan Dynasty dramas. The dramas of the Yuan Dynasty, especially the public case dramas, are the embodiment of traditional Chinese legal culture. This book studies the legal culture in Yuan Dynasty drama from the perspective of litigation participants, litigation procedures, procedural legal systems, and substantive legal systems.

On the basis of existing research, this book makes full use of relevant literature and materials, takes the diachronic evolution of the communication and reception activities of "The Peach Blossom Fan" as its longitude, and uses different types of communication and reception activities as its latitude. It sorts out, examines and studies the communication and reception of "The Peach Blossom Fan" in the more than three hundred years since its publication from an interdisciplinary perspective. Process, strive to three-dimensionally describe and present its true picture, explore its evolution trajectory, reveal its overall characteristics, discuss the impact of its dissemination and reception activities in the social, historical and cultural context, explore the multiple paths for the canonization of "The Peach Blossom Fan", and look forward to the future development direction of "The Peach Blossom Fan" research.

This book takes the Zhezi Opera as the research object and conducts research from the four dimensions of the Zhezi Opera's concept, history, text, and performance. It takes the historical development of the Zhezi Opera as the basis, and the literary characteristics and performance characteristics of the Zhezi Opera as the latitude. It strives to give a three-dimensional view of the Zhezi Opera and faithfully restore the panoramic view of the Zhezi Opera's performance. By organizing and analyzing a large number of selected opera excerpts, novels, diaries, literati notes and other documents, this book outlines the appearance of excerpt opera in the Ming and Qing dynasties: it rose in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty; developed in the Jiajing and Longqing years; flourished in the Wanli period; flourished in the Tianqi and Chongzhen years; and took shape and ended in the Qing Dynasty. This book focuses on the dual attributes of literature and performance of excerpts, and focuses on two selected excerpts of "Zui Bai Qiu" and "Shen Yin Jian Gu Lu".

This book is a complete collection of Ayn Rand's plays, including three original scripts: "The Night of January 16th", "Ideal" and "Three Thoughts". "Night of January 16th": At midnight on January 16th, the famous financial dictator Faulkner fell rapidly from the top floor of his luxury apartment and was beyond recognition. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? The play designs a Rashomon trial about the guilt of the person being tried. The factual evidence of whether the person being tried is guilty or not is balanced. The audience here is the jury of this trial. Whether the defendant is guilty or not depends on the opinions of the audience jury. Each person's trial of a case is an examination of his own conscience and a choice of his own outlook on life. Judging others means judging yourself, everyone is his or her own judge! ...

This book is a script and dialogue written by Marguerite Duras and Gérard Jarlot for a film directed by French New Wave director Henri Colby. It is a text that writes about the themes of war trauma, memory and forgetting, and desperate love. Delise, the owner of a cafe by the Seine in Paris, accidentally discovered that a homeless man walking in front of the cafe looked like her husband who had been missing for many years. In order to confirm her judgment, she constantly asked the waitress to talk to him, met him on the street, invited family members to talk about the past in front of him, and even invited him to her home for dinner. While dancing together, Desra touched a big scar on the man's head. With fear, surprise, and grief intertwined, she finally confirmed that this foolish homeless man was the husband Abaire she had been waiting for. He lost his memory forever under the torture of the fascists. Delise called his name in pain and excitement, but he raised his hands numbly and habitually, just like in the concentration camp...

This book contains four of Tolstoy's most important dramatic works: "The Force of Ignorance", "The Fruits of Education", "Light Shines in the Dark" and "The Living Corpse". Although Tolstoy's dramatic works are not as well-known as his novels, they directly and vividly reflect Tolstoy's ideological changes in his later years and reflect his unique aesthetic value and ethical and moral consciousness. Among them, the unfinished five-act play "Light Shines in the Dark" is almost a mirror image of Tolstoy's own life, projecting all his thoughts, doubts and dilemmas into it, and his departure in the last stage of his life seems to be the last scene of this unfinished play. In terms of the artistry of the drama itself, Tolstoy's plays have received mixed reviews. However, the huge ideological power contained in them has more important value and significance today.

This book is a four-act tragedy created by Albert Camus. It is based on the life of the ancient Roman tyrant Caligula and profoundly reflects Camus' existentialism and absurd philosophy. In the play, Caligula begins to question the meaning and value of life after experiencing the shock of the death of his beloved lover. He found that personality, dignity, and even pain were meaningless in the face of death, which triggered his extreme use of power and destruction of the existing order. He became a tyrant who wantonly trampled on the original human system, good and evil, and emotions, trying to find truth and eternity through power and expose the hypocrisy of the world. Through the image of Caligula, Camus explores the way humans deal with themselves in the face of an absurd world, showing the destructive consequences of abuse of power and personal madness. At the same time, he also put forward profound thoughts about human existence and freedom, and explored how to find personal meaning and value in an absurd world.

"The Injustice of Dou E" is a representative drama written by Guan Hanqing in the Yuan Dynasty. It tells the tragic story of Dou E who was wrongfully executed. She was framed by a gangster and misjudged by an unlucky official. Before her execution, she made three vows, all of which came true. The work profoundly exposes the darkness of society and praises Dou E's fighting spirit. It has been passed down through the ages with shocking tragic power and has become an immortal classic of Yuan dramas.

"Hamlet" is known as the first of Shakespeare's four tragedies. In the midst of power, love, and all the expectations of yesterday, the noble prince has never been free. He stares into the mirror and tries to talk to himself; he longs for recognition, but is alienated from everyone. Bound to a given destiny, life is like a script written by others. In order to achieve your goal, do you have to pretend to be crazy, pretend to be crazy, and disguise yourself as someone else? Complex emotions, psychological conflicts and tragic tension make "Hamlet" an eternal examination of the human spiritual world. If there are millions of Hamlets in the world, may you be loyal to yourself as day and night.

This book is one of the "Image Workshop" series of Jinan University. It compiles and selects 22 outstanding graduation works participated by graduate students and some undergraduates majoring in radio and television art at Jinan University in the past two years. Each work includes work information, recommendations, work explanations and creative manuscripts. There are both grand narratives and major themes that reflect the feelings of family and country, as well as micro works that tell the dreams, emotions and life stories of ordinary people and even people with disabilities. They are full of love for home, society and life, reflecting the in-depth observation and thinking of outstanding students on certain aspects of contemporary Chinese society, and showing the strong sense of responsibility of today's younger generation of students for national development and social progress. In addition, these outstanding graduation works, from theory to practice, can provide cases with reference significance and reference value for subsequent students' creations.

When in love, people become Romeo and Juliet; when in hesitation, people question survival or destruction. From the collapse of royal power to the noise of the market, from the whispers of love to the struggle for power - all emotions resonate in Shakespeare's writings. Power, desire, love, justice and fantasy, five eternal propositions, are staged in the theater of the book. "Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Merchant of Venice" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are five drama monuments spanning four hundred years, covering tragedies, dramas and comedies. They depict the purest humanity and are still radiating bright light in the long river of human civilization.

Nobel Prize winner Camus' masterpiece drama, "The Stranger" and "Happy Death" are newly translated by translator Zhang Yiqiao. After Caligula's lover died, he disappeared for three days. When he came back, his temperament changed drastically, and he suddenly claimed that he had discovered the truth, that is, "people are mortal, and they are not happy." Faced with this unchangeable fate, Caligula wanted to achieve the "impossible". He wanted to hold the moon in his hand, mix the sky into the sea, confuse beauty and ugliness, and make the suffering people laugh. He wants to give this century the gift of equality for all living beings. Until the impossible finally covers the earth, and in the end, no one dies and they will all be happy. In order to realize all this, a great trial begins. Caligula pushes the emperor's power to the limit, and everything in the world is waiting to be transformed...

Based on the perspective of adaptation theory, this book conducts a comprehensive study on the phenomenon of dramatic adaptation of Lu Xun's novels after sorting out more than 90 years of drama adaptations of Lu Xun's novels, and constructs a "comprehensive" framework for a more systematic and in-depth study of the dramatic adaptation of Lu Xun's novels. Therefore, on the one hand, the aesthetic value of Lu Xun's novels adapted into dramas and their significance for the dissemination of classics are studied from an ontological perspective; on the other hand, the drama adaptations of Lu Xun's novels are compared with the original works, and the internal relationship between the two, the value of narratives in different art forms, and the gains and losses of adaptation are examined. Based on the above research, this book puts forward suggestions and thoughts on the dramatic adaptation of Lu Xun's novels, and then studies how adaptation can better spread and inherit literary classics, so that the classics have more eternal artistic vitality.

"Research on Chinese Quxue" is an academic journal co-organized by Hebei University and Northern Kunqu Opera Theater and hosted by the Chinese Quxue Research Center, a key research base for humanities and social sciences in universities in Hebei Province. It is edited by Professor Liu Chongde. Focus on publishing relevant papers on traditional songwriting research. The main columns include: research on lyrics and music, research on lyrics, research on folk operas and operas of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, research on Kunqu opera, research on local operas, research on modern and contemporary composers, protection and research on intangible cultural heritage of operas, theories on famous music, interviews, etc. These research results play a positive role in promoting the discipline construction and creative methods of Chinese Quxue and making full use of the rich traditional cultural resources of Quxue.

This book mainly studies the development and evolution process of British medieval drama. British medieval drama mainly had three development lines: the activities of professional actors for the purpose of making a living, the popular performances of the general public, and the dramatic church rituals. Church ritual dramas gradually developed into the three most popular drama types in the late Middle Ages: saint dramas, serial dramas, and moral dramas. At the end of the 15th century, religious dramas gradually declined and disappeared, interlude dramas gradually emerged, and British drama began to turn to Renaissance humanistic drama. This book combs out the development trajectory of British medieval drama, that is, the development process from early folk secular drama, church ritual drama, middle and late religious drama to episodic drama, and summarizes the basic rules of the development and evolution of British medieval drama, that is, whether the church and the official can educate the people to the maximum extent determine the survival and spread of drama.

This book systematically sorts out the history of collation of Yuan dramas in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and modern times. It takes the collation results of the Ming, Qing and modern times as research cases, and conducts comparative research on those with rich results such as "The Romance of the West Chamber", "Thirty Kinds of Yuan Journal Zajus" and Guan Hanqing's Zajus. The whole book takes historical development as the basis and the results of the compilation of Yuan dramas as the latitude, comprehensively showing the overall style of the compilation of Yuan dramas.

Regarding Brecht's pursuit of dramatic ideals, it is necessary to analyze the intrinsic goals of his theoretical propositions from his overall conception of the stage. Brecht's drama has a grander vision beyond art, that is, to participate in the practice of transforming social patterns. Therefore, he must reform the function of drama to adapt to this social task, and use "defamiliarization" as the aesthetic principle to experiment with various stage art methods to achieve the purpose of prompting the audience to think and guide them to act. Emphasizing returning to the epic theater itself is to extract an internal expression path of "social tasks-dramatic functions-artistic means" from the dramatist's artistic activities, thereby deepening the understanding of its dramatic characteristics.

Religious dramas in Yuan Zaju are an important part of Yuan Zaju. By combing through all the religious plays in Yuan Zaju, and through detailed examination and analysis, this book puts forward a new concept that is different from "fairy and Taoist dramas", that is, "divine, Buddhist and Taoist dramas". This book also discusses the mode of religious drama in Yuan Zaju, the organic combination of religion and drama, and the special dramatic phenomenon of "Eight Immortals Opera". At the same time, when the author studied the "Journey to the West" drama, he found that it is an important bridge between the original Journey to the West story and the novel "Journey to the West", because it is different from the novel "Journey to the West", and some of its characteristics can better prove the relationship between "Journey to the West" and the Indian epic "Ramayana" by previous scholars. Through the study of the religious dramas of Yuan Zaju, we can find that any literary works are not fictions, and religious dramas are also reflections of social reality. From them, we can see the harsh conditions of the world, the strife in officialdom, the plight of prostitutes, and the usury system, etc., Which gives us a deeper understanding of the society of the Yuan Dynasty. The "divine, Buddhist and Taoist drama" in the seemingly fantasy Yuan dramas is actually a vivid and concrete presentation of the social conditions of China at that time on the stage. In addition, this book also includes several papers written by the author on the study of Yuan dramas.

"Collection of Ancient and Modern Famous Dramas" appeared under the background of the creative trend of retroism in the late Ming Dynasty. It is another version of the anthology of Zaju after "Zajus of Ancient Famous Masters", "Selected Zajus of Xijizi Yuanren", "Selected Ancient Zajus" and "Selected Yuan Operas". It integrates preface, selection and commentary, which not only embodies the editor Meng Chengshun's unique opera editing concept and opera theory view, but also has very precious documentary value, which is of great significance to the compilation and collation of Yuan and Ming Zaju versions. For the first time, this book studies "Collection of Ancient and Modern Famous Dramas" as a whole, and explains the composer Meng Chengshun's life, friendship, and creations through his life, friendship, and creation. Combined with the political and cultural background of the late Ming Dynasty, this book provides an in-depth and systematic analysis of "Collection of Famous Ancient and Modern Dramas". "The compilation motivation and selection criteria of ""; a detailed narration of the 56 selected plays; a classification study of the preserved comments of Meng Chengshun; and a comparative study with the Yuan and Ming Dynasty drama selections to highlight the unique value of "Selected Ancient and Modern Famous Dramas".

"Reading pictures is like reading history" is an important proposition in modern historical research. The author of this book has collected more than 2,000 frames of dramas, legends, some drama illustrations in operas, palace dramas, old drama photos, woodblock opera New Year pictures, cigarette pictures, and drama paintings on folk handicrafts published in the market since the Yuan Dynasty, and compiled them into one volume. From the perspective of visual images, the general appearance of the so-called "forbidden opera" in the prohibition and management of theater in the Qing Dynasty is described. At the same time, it also tried to explain that the reason why the official "banned opera" in the Qing Dynasty was "forbidden and difficult to stop" and "repeatedly banned again and again" just shows that this kind of folk drama has unique artistic charm and tenacious vitality.

"The Palace of Eternal Life" is a legendary drama written by Hong Sheng, a playwright in the early Qing Dynasty. It describes the love story between Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang Guifei, as well as the great disaster brought to the country by the emperor's fatuousness and political corruption during the Tianbao period of the Tang Dynasty. The first half describes the two people's oath of alliance in the Palace of Eternal Life, the An-Shi Rebellion, the Mawei Incident, and the death of Concubine Yang. The second half describes the story of Emperor Ming's longing for Concubine Yang, sending people to search for her soul, and the story of their reunion in the Moon Palace, embodying the ideal of beautiful love. "The Palace of Eternal Life" had a profound impact on the society of the early Qing Dynasty. As an emotional masterpiece, it closely interweaves history and emotion, successfully demonstrates the charm and depth of Kun Opera, and brings a historical world of sorrow and joy to the audience. "The Palace of Eternal Life" not only reveals the prosperity and decline of Tang Dynasty society, but also reflects the lessons of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, reflecting the critical attitude of society at that time towards the monarch's debauchery and harm to the country. At the same time, the portrayal of the characters in the play is also extremely successful. From the royal nobles to the loyal and patriotic people to the villains, they are all vividly portrayed, leaving a deep impression on the audience.

The Tragedies of Euripides (18 volumes in total), this series also includes "Euripides Tragedies 1: Alcestis", "Euripides Tragedies 10: Helen", "Euripides Tragedies 6: Hecuba", "Euripides Tragedies 4: The Children of Hercules", "Euripides Tragedies 13: Ion", etc.

"The Force of Habit" premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 1974 and was Thomas Bernhard's first true comedy. Garibaldi, a circus owner, decides to practice the cello in order to overcome illness, aging, and the chaos of mediocrity. For years, when not touring the circus, Garibaldi tried to perfect the music by performing Schubert's Trout Quintet in its entirety with circus clowns, animal trainers, jugglers and his high-wire walking granddaughter. However, rehearsals often have to be interrupted for various reasons and become a complete disaster. Year after year of grotesque drills became a circus routine. We don't like this life, but it has to be lived; we all hate the Trout Quintet, but we have to play it.

On November 4, 1988, "Heroes' Square" broke through numerous obstacles and premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The performance was unprecedented and attracted the attention of Europe and even the world. This was the last play written by Thomas Bernhard. For ten or eleven years, the professor's wife always heard the shouts in Heroes' Square. No one could hear the shouts but she could hear them... She had heard the shouts of the people in Heroes' Square for several months. The shouts made her restless all day long. You know, on March 15, 1938, Hitler drove into Heroes' Square...

In May 1975, "The President" premiered at the Academy Theater in Vienna, Austria (the second stage of the Burgtheater). In an unnamed European country, the president and his wife are preparing to attend the funeral. Not long ago, an anarchist assassination attempt against the president failed. The president himself survived, but the president's close aide, the colonel, and the president's wife's pet dog unfortunately lost their lives. While the president and his wife were freshening up and changing their clothes, they recalled the thrilling assassination and described a life in high positions, with power and fear. No one understands that they don't understand that these people don't understand anything. They only have despicable ambition and hatred in their minds. What else can there be...

Paying attention to life and social reality in a critical way reveals absurdities and paradoxes that are different from Kafka's; using the ironclad spirit of intellectuals, he becomes the gadfly of society and the people. Classic plays by Thomas Bernhard, winner of the Lille Patzer Prize, the Austrian State Prize for Literature, the Büchner Prize, the Free Hanseatic City Bremen Prize, the Julius Camper Prize, the Anton Wildgans Prize, and the Franz Theodor Jockol Literary Prize. "The President": Bernhard's classic drama; a mockery of the madness of the world; behind the world is a solid and complex stage mechanism. "Heroesplatz": Bernhard's last play; a play that shocked the world and turned the whole of Austria into a stage. The Force of Habit: Bernhard's first comedy; Hannover Theater Prize, Best Play of the Year in Contemporary Theater; In a world without tolerance, every word is a mantra.

This book is the first volume, and this set of books is divided into six volumes. The three volumes of tragedies and three volumes of comedies include 11 tragedies such as "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" and 12 comedies such as "The Merchant of Venice", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor", all arranged in order of Shakespeare's writing time. This set of books is translated by Mr. Zhu Shenghao. It has been tested for a long time and is worth reading and collecting by readers!