汤显祖和莎士比亚同为世界戏剧史上的伟大艺术家。据日本研究者青木正儿在《中国近世戏曲史》中的介绍:“显祖之诞生,先于英国莎士比亚十四年,后莎氏之逝世一年而卒,东西曲坛伟人,同出其时,亦一奇也。”可见,两位作家生活于同一个世纪,想必两位作家定有众多的共同之处,本文仅以两位剧作家所创造的女性形象为切入点,看看中西方同时代的男性作家如何安排他们的女主人公的命运及生活,由此分析两位艺术家的妇女观之异同,从而透视中西方此时期女性的地位问题。 Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare are both great artists in the history of world drama. According to the Japanese researcher Aoki Masato in the “History of Modern Chinese Opera”: “The birth of the great ancestors came before Shakespeare in the United Kingdom for fourteen years, and Shakespeare died a year later. In the meantime, it is an odd thing. ”" We can see that the two writers lived in the same century. Presumably, the two writers would have many things in common. This article only focuses on the female images created by the two playwrights. To see how contemporary male and female writers in China and the West arranged the fate and life of their heroines, and then analyzed the similarities and differences between the two women’s viewpoints of women and thus the issue of the status of women in China and the West during this period.