茅盾常以小说家和批评家驰名,但他早在“五四”前后即开始广泛接触、译介、传播挪威、日本、欧美、苏俄等外国戏剧思潮和理论,汲取其丰富营养,发起组建民众戏剧社等戏剧团体,革新中国戏曲,建设中国话剧,为中国戏剧与异域文化发生碰撞、实现现代转型,作出了奠基性的历史贡献。并且在他唯一的戏剧创作中,谨慎而有限地运用外国戏剧的先进经验,某种程度上为其他剧作家提供了一种可供模仿的范式。 Mao Dun is often famous as a novelist and critic but as early as the May 4th Movement, Mao Zedong began to make extensive contacts with and interpret, disseminate and disseminate the ideas and theories of foreign drama in Norway, Japan, Europe, the United States and Russia, and draw lessons from his rich nutrition, Initiated the formation of theater groups such as the Public Drama Club, innovated Chinese opera, built Chinese drama, and made a groundbreaking historic contribution to the collision between Chinese drama and exotic culture and the realization of modern transformation. And in his only drama creation, the cautious and limited use of the advanced experience of foreign drama has, to some extent, provided a model for other playwrights to imitate.