[作者档案] 曹禺(1910-1996),现、当代剧作家。原名万家宝。祖籍湖北潜江,生于天津一个封建官僚家庭。从小爱好文学和戏剧,读了不少古今中外的文学作品。1928 年考入南开大学政治系。1930年转入清华大学西洋文学系,他广泛接触欧美文学作品,深为古希腊悲剧作家及莎士比亚、契诃夫等人的剧作所吸引,同时也陶 [Author] Cao Yu (1910-1996), contemporary and contemporary playwright. Formerly known as Wanjiabao. He was born in Qianjiang, Hubei and was born in a feudal bureaucrat family in Tianjin. Since childhood, he has loved literature and drama and has read a lot of literary works both in ancient and modern times. In 1928 he was admitted to the Department of Politics of Nankai University. In 1930, he entered the Department of Western Literature at Tsinghua University. He extensively touched on European and American literary works and was deeply attracted by ancient Greek tragedies and plays by Shakespeare and Chekhov, and also Tao.