欧里庇得斯的《希波吕托斯》、尤金·奥尼尔的《榆树下的欲望》以及曹禺的《雷雨》之间存在着明显的互文性。情节上,后两部剧目续写着家庭中继母与儿子之间的乱伦关系。对女性人物的细腻刻画和表现也是三部剧作的共同点。李健吾在谈到《雷雨》时,曾如是说:“容我乱问一句,作者隐隐中有没有受到两出戏的暗示?一个是希腊尤瑞彼得司 There is a clear intertextuality between Hippolytus of Euripides, Eugene O’Neill’s Desire under the Elm and Thunderstorm in Cao Yu. In the episode, the last two plays continue the incestuous relationship between the family’s stepmother and his son. The delicate depiction and expression of female characters are also the common features of the three dramas. When talking about ”thunderstorm“, Li Jianwu said: ”I asked a random question, did the author be implicitly hinted at by two dramas? One is the Greek Yipei Peter Division