莎士比亚与汤显祖,16世纪与17世纪之交东西方剧坛的两位杰出的戏剧大师。不同的文化背景下,他们既有着惊人的相似,也有各自的特性,他们象征着一个时代的精神诉求和审美情趣,丰富着人类的精神宝库。然而几年前,北京外国语学院教授陈国华却一语惊人——汤显祖无法比拟莎士比亚!他认为, Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu, the two outstanding theater masters at the Eastern and Western theater of the 16th and 17th centuries. Different cultural backgrounds, they both have striking similarities, but also have their own characteristics, they symbolize the spiritual appeal of an era and aesthetic taste, rich human spiritual treasure house. However, a few years ago, Chen Guohua, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, made an astonishing remark that Tang Xianzu could not compare with Shakespeare! In his opinion,