《牡丹亭》是一出剧,这出剧是明朝时候的一位文学家写的。他叫汤显祖,他和西方大戏剧家莎士比亚生活在同一时代,所不同的是,他们一个生活在中国,一个生活在英国。他比莎士比亚大十四岁,但都是在同一年离开人世的。 Peony Pavilion is a play written by a writer of the Ming Dynasty. His name is Tom Hsien-tzu, who lives in the same era as the Western theater theorist Shakespeare, except that one lives in China and one in Britain. He was fourteen years older than Shakespeare, but both died in the same year.