Contents

Tom Stopper’s Imprudence and Russian’s Rage………………… Chen Shixiong  5

Decline and fall of bourgeois marriage in Ibsen’s dramas – with constant regard to

Martin Luther, Søren Kierkegaard and Love’s Comedy……..Knut Brynhildsvoll

                                                       　　　　　　　　  Zhu Ning (trans.)  18

Shakespeare Complex and Shakespeare Parody in Canadian Theatre

……………………………………………………………….Zhao Qingqing 36

Blanche’s Journey of Self-salvation in A Streetcar Named Desire

   ………………………………………………………………Zhu Yanyan 47

A Study of Screen Adaptation of Spoken Drama from 1949 on…… Gong Jinping 59

Back to the Debates about Theatre during the May-Fourth Movement

 …………………………………………………………………Zhang Tingting 68                                            

The Theatre Movement in Taiwan…………………………….Ouyang Yuqian 81

Popular Spoken Drama Performance in Shanghai during the “Isolated Island”

 Period as Seen from the Ads in the Shen Daily………………………Hu Die 87

The Origin of the Zen Drama in China and the Eastward Spread of

 Buddhist Images………………..………….………………  Li Qiang  101

The Handan Dream: An Economic Perspective……………  Zheng Yanling 115

From Full-Length Play to Zhezi Xi: An Interpretation of Adaptations to

 Peony Pavilion from a Perspective of Communication……….Wang Xingmin 128

Exploration of the Diversity and Internationalization of Contemporary

Chinese Drama: A Case Study of Zheng He…………………...Wang Shaojun 137

Animal Costumes as the Rudimentary Costume……………….Chen Xiangqun 150

Executive Editor in Chief         Shen Lin

Editors                        Huang Jue   Zhao Zhiyong

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