曹禺是中国现代杰出的戏剧家,他一生共写过8部剧本,著有《雷雨》、《日出》、《原野》、《北京人》等名作。曹禺原名万家宝,祖籍湖北潜江,1910年9月24日生于天津官僚家庭;只读过几年私塾的曹禺,13岁进入天津银号“汉英译学馆”学习英语,并开始接触莎士比亚等外国作家的作品。1922年跨级进入南开中学二年级学习。1923年开始热衷于新文学作品,尤其是鲁迅的《呐喊》和郭沫若的《女神》。1926年开始在天津《庸报》副刊上连载小说《今 Cao Yu is an outstanding dramatist in modern China. He wrote a total of eight plays throughout his life and wrote masterpieces such as “Thunderstorm,” “Sunrise,” “Wilderness,” and “Beijinger.” Cao Yu, formerly known as Wan Jiabao, was born in Qianjiang, Hubei Province. He was born in Tianjin bureaucracy on September 24, 1910. Cao Yu, who read only a few years of private school, went to Tianjin Bank at the age of 13 to study English at the Chinese- Works with foreign authors such as Shakespeare. In 1922 entered Nankai Middle School second grade learning. Beginning in 1923, he was keen on new literary works, especially Lu Xun’s “Shout” and Guo Moruo’s “Goddess”. 1926 began in Tianjin, “yongbao” supplements serial novel "Today