老舍先生不仅是伟大的小说家，还是伟大的戏剧家。他从事戏剧创作之前，已是文坛巨匠。1936年他辞去山东大学教活，成为专业作家。次年抗战爆发，为了团结抗日，他运用人民喜闻乐见的多种形式，投身于抗战文艺的洪流之中，不仅采用旧剧形式写抗战题材，还连续写了8个话剧。他说 Lao She is not only a great novelist, but also a great dramatist. Before he engaged in drama creation, is already a literary master. In 1936 he resigned from Shandong University to teach, to become a professional writer. The following year the outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan, in order to unite against the Japanese, he used a variety of forms loved by the people, engaged in the torrent of anti-war literature and art, not only using the old drama style to write the theme of the war, but also wrote eight consecutive drama. He said