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This book is the fourth 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!

This book is the fifth 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!

This book is the sixth 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!

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The Tragedies of Euripides (18 volumes in total), this series also includes "Euripides Tragedies 16: Iphigenia at Aulis", "Euripides Tragedies 12: The Mad Hercules", "Euripides Tragedies 18: The Round-Eyed Giant", "Euripides Tragedies 11: Orestes", "Euripides Tragedies 4: The Children of Hercules", etc.

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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.

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"Faust (Part 1)" has a total of 4612 lines of poetry and 60 lines of prose. The entire book was first published in 1808, and the writing process took nearly 40 years. The first part is mainly composed of two parts, one is the scholar's play, and the other is Gretchen's play. The scholar's play not only embodies the satire of scholars and academics, but also foreshadows the trends and problems of modern natural science. The Gretchen play staged Faust's emotional experience in the small world. Specifically, it was the "love tragedy" between Faust, an aristocratic young man, and the common girl Gretchen: Faust's temptation led the innocent girl Gretchen to commit a crime and suffer the disaster of "extermination." Annotations are added to the translation, mainly intellectual explanations, divided into marginal notes and footnotes; each scene is preceded by a brief "explanation", which is an explanation of the title, and a brief explanation of the written history, plot, poetry and drama form; "Brief Commentary" is dealt with when necessary, summarizing the issues involved and adding additional comments.

In the West, Chekhov is often called the Shakespeare of the twentieth century. He changed the long-standing drama system and presented a simple and natural rhythm of life in "prose style", but also unearthed the deepest sadness, expectation and eternal longing in the seemingly trivial daily life. The year 2024 coincides with the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death. This series is a master-guided collector's edition of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", which fully includes Chekhov's dramatic works, including the multi-act plays "Uncle Vanya", "The Cherry Orchard" and "Three Sisters" "The Seagull", "Ivanov", "The Fatherless", "The Forest Monster" and the one-act drama "Swan Song", select classic translations by masters such as Li Jianwu, Jiao Juyin, Tong Daoming and others, and include audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. At the same time, scholars spanning the fields of performing arts, literature, and translation are specially invited, including Dong Xiao, dean of the School of Literature at Nanjing University, Peng Tao, professor of the drama department of the Central Academy of Drama, Wu Xiaojun, professor of the Shanghai Theater Academy, Yang Shen, a scholar of neo-fantasy realism drama research and theater director, Zou Zhuofan, a teacher of the musical theater department of the Beijing Dance Academy, Wang Xiaoying, a well-known director, Xu Le, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, etc., To interpret the work in depth and trace their encounter and fate with Chekhov's stage.

"The Woodland Monster" is a drama work by Anton Chekhov. It narrates a family story centered on a professor with a weird temper and selfishness. It successfully creates the image of "The Woodland Monster", a doctor with unique ideas but not understood by everyone. It is regarded as a "beautiful dramatic novella". The research community recognizes that "The Forest Monster" is the predecessor of "Uncle Vanya" and is an indispensable part of the complete presentation of Chekhov's drama creation. As Xu Le, the author of the introduction to this book and a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "Chekhov never wrote a novel in his life, but he did use "The Forest Monster" as a starting point to create a novel-style drama that had never been seen on the stage before... The playwright tried his best to show people's inner, long-term, habitual depression and the hidden trend of the times in the details of daily conversations, eating and drinking, walking, reading newspapers, and playing cards, in silent pauses or meaningful overtones." This book is the seventh volume of the "Master Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

"The Man Without a Father", also known as "Platonov", is a work written by the great dramatist Anton Chekhov when he was studying at the age of 19. Although he was a little immature, he already showed his amazing creative talent. The translator, Mr. Tong Daoming, is a famous drama critic and an industry-recognized expert on Chekhov. The script describes the decline of provincial aristocratic estates and depicts the image of a group of intellectuals, represented by the protagonist Platonov, who have nothing to do and spend their days in melancholy. It is the precursor of a series of "superfluous people" characters at the end of the century created in Chekhov's later works. As the book's introduction author and well-known director Wang Xiaoying said, "Platonov's excellence and sensitivity make him like the nerve endings of the organic whole of human beings. He feels and bears the spiritual distress that belongs to us all before us and is stronger than us... Is Platonov noble or despicable? Tragic or tragic? Is it comic? Will it make people cry or laugh? Should we sympathize with him or despise him? ... The 19-year-old Chekhov leaves today's people at a loss, and the modernity of "The Man Without a Father" may lie in this. "This book is the sixth volume of the "Famous Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Plays", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

"Three Sisters" is Chekhov's famous play that is constantly being rehearsed on stages around the world. In a family of Imperial Russian officers in a small provincial town in Russia, three sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina, lived with their brother. They were smart, beautiful, well-educated, and each of them had a dream in their hearts. For the three sisters, Moscow, where they lived when they were young, is their spiritual home, and they hope to return to Moscow. However, as time goes by, life changes quietly, and beautiful ideals and vulgar reality collide fiercely. They all feel the hardship and boredom of life to varying degrees. There is no way to go back to Moscow, and the longing for a spiritual home is still in the hearts of the three sisters... This book is the third volume of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas" "Famous Guide Edition", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

"The Seagull", which Chekhov himself called a comedy, tells the story of several misplaced loves in Russian manor life at the end of the 19th century, and the beauty that was destroyed as a result. As Chekhov's first four-act play, it has become a symbol of Chekhov's dramatic innovation and personal artistic maturity. Nina, a girl from a wealthy rural family, is innocent and simple. She longs for beautiful love and has great hopes for the future life. Trepolev hopes to become a writer, but also deeply loves Nina. Tripolev's father passed away, and his mother Irina took a writer named Trigorin back to the manor to recuperate. Nina was attracted by the famous Boris... This book is the fourth volume of the "Master Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

"Swan Song" is a one-act play by Anton Chekhov, which includes a total of nine one-act plays such as "On the Road", "On the Harm of Tobacco", "Swan Song" and "The Bear". They are all short and interesting. Some works have experimental colors, reflecting Chekhov's special style exploration in one-act plays. Among them, "Swan Song" is the most famous. The play depicts an old comedian who bids farewell to his glorious years. He performs a wonderful last performance with a prompter in an empty backstage, just like the swan's final song. As the introduction author of this book, Professor Peng Tao of the Central Academy of Drama, said, "In the inconspicuous 'small form' of the one-act play, Chekhov's profound gaze on life is integrated with humorous laughter, melancholy temperament and optimistic and open-minded spirit are accompanied, and the 'emotional undercurrent' is organically combined with the development of the plot... Chekhov's one-act play is a key to interpreting his multi-act plays." This book is the 8th volume of the "Master Guide Edition" of "The Complete Works of Chekhov's Dramas", with audio interpretations of famous scenes from Chekhov's plays. I would like to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Chekhov's death - his stage contains all the pain and expectations of this era.

Maugham is well-known among Chinese readers for his novels such as "The Moon and Sixpence" that have long become cultural symbols. But in fact, in the first half of his life, long before Maugham became a novelist, he had achieved astonishing success in the theater world. During the heyday of his dramatic writing, London's major theaters once staged four of his plays simultaneously. Contemporaries once joked in cartoons that such an achievement would make Shakespeare jealous. Divided into four volumes, this complete collection includes complete translations of all 25 Maugham published plays, filling a gap in this field in the domestic publishing industry. His plays particularly embody his literary style that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, humor and wit, and are worthy of appreciation by all Maugham lovers.

The righteous judgment caused by a pound of flesh and the moral dilemma of human law. In order to help his friend woo, Antonio borrows money from the Jew Shylock overdue, but the Jew insists on killing him by cutting off his flesh as agreed. The judge allowed him to cut off a pound of flesh as promised, but he could not shed a drop of blood, otherwise he would lose the money he borrowed, be sentenced to death, and have his property confiscated. Who can bear justice without mercy?

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is one of Shakespeare's most popular works. This is a romantic comedy that depicts a series of stories centered on the wedding of the Grand Duke of Athens. The naughty elf Puck ordered the wrong love flower juice, triggering a love farce in which the fairy king and queen in the forest, four Athenian lovers and six amateur actors were involved. The lovers who were originally in love suddenly broke their vows and fell in love with someone else. The noble fairy queen actually fell in love with a mortal wearing a donkey head hood. Fortunately, in the end, the lovers finally got married. The introduction and annotations of this book are compiled by Professor Peter Holland, President of the International Shakespeare Society. It comprehensively interprets the dramatic connotation of the play from the perspectives of dream theory, female characters' resistance to patriarchal principles, etc., And deeply dissects this dream story suitable for all ages.

Scottish general Macbeth learns from the three fateful sisters that he is about to become the new king. On the night when the old king Duncan stayed overnight, Macbeth was encouraged by his wife to kill Duncan with a knife. When the prophecy finally came true, Macbeth was backlashed by ambition and sin, became suspicious and insane, and was eventually beheaded by his rebellious subordinates. "Macbeth" is one of the works with the strongest dramatic conflict among Shakespeare's plays. It is the smallest in size, but has multiple climaxes and layered reversals, and is as complex as the protagonist Macbeth in Hamlet. The subtlety of this play lies in its exploration and exposure of the deepest parts of the human heart. In Macbeth's long monologue, we get a glimpse of the intertwining and confrontation between ambition and conscience, desire and cowardice, and good and evil in the individual soul. Many illusions wander around, adding to the romanticism. The introduction and annotations of this book are compiled by Professor Nicholas Brooke of the University of East Anglia. It analyzes this Shakespeare classic tragedy from novel perspectives such as diverse dramatic illusions, outstanding language effects, Baroque aesthetics of "Macbeth", and more than 400 years of performance history.

"Other people always think that a person is in so much pain because the person he loves passed away in one day. In fact, the value of his pain is higher: that is, he discovered that sadness cannot last, and even pain has lost its meaning." After the death of his lover, the Roman monarch Caligula discovered that personality, dignity, and even pain are meaningless in the face of death. He began to use his power to extremes, wantonly destroying and trampling on all the original human systems, good and evil, and emotions, and became a tyrant that everyone feared... He wanted to know what truth is, what eternity is, and wanted to expose all the hypocrisy in the world...

This book is a comprehensive display of the original achievements of Liu An, a famous playwright in our province, who is known as the "Hometown of Drama" over the past decades. The whole book is divided into two volumes: upper and lower. The first volume is a "big script", including more than a dozen large-scale opera scripts, including Mr. Liu An's famous work "The Butcher Number One Scholar", which has won numerous awards, and the large-scale historical dramas "Xuan Zang", "Li Zicheng's Troops", "Shang Jun Shang Yu Xing" ", there are "Moon River" and "Immortal" adapted from Jia Pingwa's novels, as well as modern dramas "Mountain Guest", "Hometown Moon", "Mountain Anecdotes" and so on. The themes are clear and profound, the content is grand and thick, and the lyrics are soul-stirring. The second volume is "Small Opera Sketch", including "Buckwheat Noodles", "Happiness at the Gate", "Blind Date", "Three Qin Love" and more than 31 small opera scripts that are full of Shangluo customs and life atmosphere. Mr. Liu An has always adhered to the people-centered creative orientation. All his plays are based on the core socialist values, adhere to the Chinese cultural stance, promote the spirit of the times, and highlight the artistic pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.

Since its inception, "Dragon and Phoenix" has become one of the most popular plays in theaters during the Spring Festival due to its auspicious meaning and humorous plot. The intrigues and intrigues, the twists and turns of the marriage, the hilarious dialogues between the characters, and the interpretations of Peking Opera masters from past generations have made it an enduring classic. This book includes the sung version of "Dragon and Phoenix Presenting Auspiciousness", a rare story book of "The Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from the Wanli period, and the on-stage and behind-the-scenes performance of the National Peking Opera Theatre, showing the charm of the classic from multiple angles. This book contains the corresponding excerpts from the Zhouyue edition of the Wanjuanlou publication in Jinling during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.

The work tells the story of officialdom during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. The author uses the form of traditional opera scripts to portray the image of an upright official who cares about the people and is honest in government.

Cheng Jiajun, a teacher at Shanghai Hongda Middle School who was heavily in debt and was fired, agreed to a business marriage after an "unexpected incident" and became Lin Liyang, a history teacher at Mingren University. The trajectory of his life began to change with a mysterious and lovely girl Mu Yi, and their common innocence brought them closer to each other. However, this girl is his business marriage partner Yang Qinyao, a young and promising Chinese business leader. What is it that she and he insist on guarding?

Jin Lili, who was hit hard by her job, also encountered obstacles in her life. In addition, her mother's frequent illnesses made her breathless. She became more and more envious of her biological sister Jin Nana, who lived a prosperous life with her father. She often imagined that if God gave her another chance to choose, she would have a chance to go back to the past, but the ending was not as beautiful as she thought.

This book is a collection of scripts that compiles many excellent popular science scripts from the Capital Popular Science Theater, including "Flying Over the Central Axis", "Around the Earth", "JOJO's Adventures", "It's Not My Fault: The Wonderful Respiratory System", "Feifei's Urban Adventure", "The Last One-Leaf Grass", "The Fantasy Journey of Heaven's Creation" and "Thousand-Year-Old Stone Carvings" "The Adventure King of Chinese Characters", "Restore the Truth: The Case of the Missing Diamond" and "The Magician from the Science Center", this script compilation is a classic script selected and recommended by various theater troupes. It covers standard script formats, excellent writing methods, and real industry environments. It will provide script template examples for science popularization work units and relevant practitioners of theater troupes, which is conducive to learning and research.

The work is a literary script. Li Liguo, who had been imprisoned for 20 years for being falsely accused of rape and wrongfully convicted of rape, returned to his hometown after being released from prison. In order to regain his innocence, he found Zhao Lili, the victim who also identified himself, and wanted her to appear in court to overturn the case. But Zhao Lili has a hidden past and is already married and living a stable life. After Li Liguo came to the door, Zhao Lili did not want her husband Sheng Jinxiang to know about her unbearable past, so she rejected his request. Li Liguo found lawyer Cao to help him reverse the case. Based on clues, Li Liguo found the two real culprits who committed the crime that year. One of them had already died due to an accident, leaving only Wang Haicheng, an entrepreneur with a flourishing career. In order to cover up the truth, Wang Haicheng bribed lawyer Cao, Sheng Jinxiang and Li Liguo's sister. Sheng Jinxiang knew the truth of the matter and could not accept that Zhao Lili had deceived him. The relationship between the two was only in name only. They accidentally led to the death of their child during a dispute. Zhao Lili was completely disappointed. Wang Haicheng hired a murderer to get rid of Li Liguo, but Li Liguo was lucky enough to escape. Feeling that he was in a dead end, he decided to take the initiative to obtain evidence to prove his innocence. At this time, Zhao Lili, who had no worries, decided to help Li Guo reverse the case, but Li Guo also let go of his hatred for her. Under Liguo's life-and-death pressure, Wang Haicheng finally told the truth, Liguo obtained evidence, and finally the police helped Li Liguo regain his innocence, and the truth about Liguo's case came to light...

This is one of Shakespeare's famous comedies. The play takes place in the town of Windsor and revolves around Falstaff's simultaneous courtship of Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page. There are a lot of ridiculous plots and characters in the middle, such as Mrs. Ford's suspicious husband, Guikeli who passes messages between Miss Page's two suitors, and Evans whose unclear English pronunciation leads to a lot of jokes. While the main plot is going on, the side plot shows the young people's firm persistence in love. The daughter of the Page family unswervingly chooses the object of her pursuit, and successfully marries her lover with the help of Guikeli. This play is Shakespeare's mature work, with rich dialogues and a large number of witticisms. For Chinese readers, it is an important work for understanding Shakespeare's language style.

"Love's Labour's Labour" is one of Shakespeare's most satirical early court comedies with a lighter style. It mainly tells the story of the King of Navarre and three noble courtiers, who swore not to have sex with women for three years. Unexpectedly, the King of France sent a princess with three maids to negotiate the ownership of a certain place. The four men soon gave up their original intentions and fell in love with each other. Four pairs of men and women staged a series of burlesque plays. Although the play is called "Love in vain," judging from the plot, the theme of the play is that love can conquer all. The whole play is full of romanticism, eulogizing the magical power of love, praising the beauty of human nature, and praising the vitality of youth. It exudes a strong color of humanism and has publication value.

The tragedy of a big southern family whose family relationships are all maintained by lies. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is one of Tennessee Williams' most important masterpieces and won him his second Pulitzer Prize. "Big Daddy" was seriously ill and passed away soon. His two sons, Brick and Cooper, with opposite personalities, took their wives to attend his sixty-fifth birthday party. The Coopers are bent on acquiring a huge fortune; the younger brother Brick becomes an alcoholic due to self-doubt about his homosexuality. The images of "Big Daddy" and Maggie are rich and full, ready to come out. This play is also one of the most famous repertoires in the American theater world. The film version has also become a classic in film history, starring two idols and great actors, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. It is a classic masterpiece of the golden age of American theater and film.

Who drove Blanche crazy? "A Streetcar Named Desire" undoubtedly sent a deafening scream to the society. "A Streetcar Named Desire" is undoubtedly the masterpiece among Williams' many works. The heroine Blanche is a typical southern lady. After her family fell into decline, she refused to give up her old way of life and gradually became corrupted. Later, she had to seek refuge with her sister Stella. However, he was incompatible with his brother-in-law Stanley's rough lifestyle, and was raped by his brother-in-law, and was eventually sent to a lunatic asylum. The brutal and cruel forces in modern society mercilessly ravage the gentle and elegant weak. "A Streetcar Named Desire" undoubtedly sent a deafening scream to the society - who drove Blanche crazy! The play was a huge success after being staged in New York in 1947, winning three American drama awards: the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Award and the Donaldson Award. The film adaptation of the same name is the number one work in the American theater and film circles, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh.

"Henry IV" is the most successful and popular historical drama by Shakespeare, the master of British Renaissance drama, and is regarded as the representative work of Shakespeare's historical dramas. The main content of this work is to reflect the process of Henry IV and his princes' desperate struggle against the rebellious princes and nobles. In the play, the relaxed, mediocre, happy city life full of mischief is in sharp contrast with the tense, complicated palace life full of bloody conspiracies, making the content of the work not only exude a strong flavor of life, but also have a certain historical depth. Wu Xinghua was a talented poet, writer and translator in my country in the 1940s and 1950s. His works have unique artistic conceptions, magnificent words, and have high literary and artistic value. Although Wu Xinghua's translation works are not many, they are all excellent. "Henry IV" is his masterpiece of translation, but it reflects his unique insights and profound understanding of translation.

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes Ozu Yasujiro's "Tokyo Story", "Early Spring" and "Tokyo Twilight".

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes Ozu Yasujiro's "Flowers of the Other Shore", "Good Morning" and "Floating Grass".

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes "Late Spring", "Wheat Autumn" and "The Taste of Tea and Rice" by Yasujirō Ozu.

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes "Autumn Peace", "Autumn in the Kobayakawa Family" and "The Taste of Saury" by Yasujiro Ozu.

What needs to be expressed on the stage is the situation, not the character. The masterpiece of drama by Diderot, the outstanding French Enlightenment thinker, is the culmination of Diderot's drama creation thoughts. "The Dramas of Diderot" is the eighth volume of the "Collected Works of Diderot" and contains three representative works of Diderot's plays - "The Bastard or the Test of Morality", "Head of the Family" and "Is He a Good Man?" Or a villain? ", And a talk about theater - "A Talk About." Among them, "The Bastard" tells the story of Dorval, an illegitimate son who was invited by Clavier and his sister to stay at their home. During this period, Doval fell deeply in love with Clavier's fiancée Rosalie, and was tortured by his conscience for this. "A Conversation About" explains Diderot's thoughts on drama creation through the dialogue and debate between Doval and Diderot, the male protagonists of "The Bastard". Diderot's "serious drama" - "People cannot always be happy without pain, so there must be a middle ground between comedy and tragedy" - advocates no longer focusing on myths and historical legends, but getting the source of life from the joys and sorrows of ordinary people.

This book contains Shakespeare's five representative tragedies: "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". The play carries fierce dramatic conflicts with wild imagination, tense language and strict structure, focusing on depicting the contradictory and complex inner world of the characters, implying concern and exploration of human nature.

"The Apple Cart: A Political Rhapsody" is a play written by Irish playwright Bernard Shaw in 1928. The title of the book "The Apple Cart" comes from the British proverb "overturning the apple cart", which means "upsetting a wishful thinking". This is a satirical comedy about political philosophy. The author expresses his hidden worries about British politics through this fictional story. Synopsis: The fictional King Magnus of England has a dispute with Prime Minister Brotus and his cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet tried to deprive the monarchy of its remaining political influence. The king used his wisdom to resolve the crisis, and everything was business as usual. But in the end, a political problem was left unresolved... Bernard Shaw expressed his hidden worries about British politics through this fictional story. Although it has certain limitations, it is very prescient. This book is translated by Lao She and is the crystallization of the wisdom of two Chinese and foreign drama masters.

"Everything I touch turns to gold. Everything." Auspicious stars are shining. Is this a blessing or a curse? Why do young winners in life choose to commit suicide? From the "American Dream" to the "American Nightmare." Arthur Miller is one of the greatest contemporary playwrights and is known as "the conscience of American drama." This play is Arthur Miller's first play on Broadway. It explores the loss of order and moral collapse during the Great Depression, and asks a question that seems to have no answer - "Is fate fair?" In the eyes of people around him, David Beavers is an out-and-out "winner in life" - he is young, has a happy family, a successful career, and a lot of good luck. All obstacles can disappear in front of him, as if some god has given him the ability to turn stone into gold. However, his auspicious stars constantly reveal the tragedy of those around him, and before he knows it, his path to success turns into a nightmare of doubt. He is struggling to find some clear operating rules in a seemingly irrational universe, and his despair brings him to the edge of madness... The play is permeated by the fear of failure and the guilt of success, which runs through almost all of Arthur Miller's subsequent works. It was through this play that Miller "began to get a taste of what it was like to be a playwright, and maybe even a human being."

"The Merchant of Venice" was written around 1596-1597. It is an important early work of Shakespeare. It is a highly satirical comedy and one of Shakespeare's four major comedies. The script unfolds through three clues. The main line is the "pound of flesh" contract dispute caused by the Venetian merchant Antonio borrowing 3,000 gold coins from the Jewish loan shark Shylock in order to help Bassanio get married. Its theme is to celebrate benevolence, friendship and love, while also expressing humanistic thoughts on issues such as money, law and religion. An important literary achievement of this play is the creation of the typical image of Shylock, a loan shark. Since its publication in 1600, it has been adapted into movies and TV series many times, the most famous of which is the 2004 movie starring Al Pacino.

"A Midsummer Night's Dream", with a dreamlike name, is a relatively mature comedy work by the British playwright William Shakespeare in his youth. It is also one of William Shakespeare's most famous comedies. It tells a love story in which lovers finally get married. This play has had a huge influence on the history of world literature, especially the history of drama. Later generations adapted it into movies, stories, games, paintings, etc.

"Hamlet" is a representative work of Shakespeare's tragedies. This work was written in 1602. It has reached unprecedented depth and breadth in ideological content, profoundly revealing the sins and essential characteristics of late feudal society. Among them, plots such as the father being killed by an evil uncle, the throne being usurped, the mother marrying the murderer in incest, the crown prince trying to take revenge and pretending to be crazy, etc., Can all be found in ancient Nordic legends. Shakespeare belongs not only to one era but to all centuries. His plays are like the Big Dipper in the bright starry sky, guiding people in the direction. "To survive or not to perish, this is a question worth considering." He raised this question as a basic proposition of philosophy.

"Shakespeare's Tragedies" collects Shakespeare's five representative tragedies, including "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", covering all aspects of social life: there are tragedies with love as the theme, tragedies with revenge as the clue, and tragedies that directly expose evil. These tragic works represent Shakespeare's outstanding achievements, profoundly depict the tragedy of human nature and the destiny of mankind, and are great works in world literature. In "Romeo and Juliet", a series of accidental plots create a conflict between family feud and true love, and continue to intensify the conflict, making it impossible to resolve the conflict in a satisfactory way, and the only choice is final destruction. "Hamlet" uses the history of Denmark in the 8th century to reflect the social reality of England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. "Othello" describes the strange love story between a Venetian noblewoman who has no experience in the world and the son of an African Moorish tribe leader. The story of "King Lear" comes from ancient British legends. There are many poems and proses on this theme. Shakespeare added original content such as the tragic ending and King Lear's madness based on the story blueprint. "Macbeth" has the dual aesthetic qualities of tragedy of fate and tragedy of character, which is consistent with the spirit of the times at that time.

This book contains three drama scripts, among which "Soda" commemorates the 14th anniversary of the earthquake relief. It reflects the selfless dedication of the people in the disaster area through the story of An Sanwa, a villager in Chaping, who sacrificed his own life to save the pregnant Li Xiufen. "Men's Room" explores the current attitudes of men towards work, marriage and the meaning of life through the chats of three men of different ages in the online virtual space. "Gyro" reflects the changes brought about by rural revitalization through the love of an old man. The script uses a one-man show to see the big from the small, and reflects the development and changes of the country through Zhao Qianliang's life experience.