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有关昆曲的英语原著和英译本的词汇级别之九 张铁城 2016、11、4 发送 No.12第十一章 在跨文化交际中探索运用真实英语 之二 有关青春版《牡丹亭》演出的文章 No.12DX10请试着找一下，发现： 这篇网上有关《青春版牡丹亭》的评论与介绍里面的 英语词汇总量1,326个 其中：一级词汇877个，占66.13%。A Refined Art By Michael Zwiebach ?2006 Michael Zwiebach, all rights reserved A teacher can easily forget what it’s like for a student to encounter a classical art such as opera for the first time. Its an experience that can be overwhelming and bewildering. The Cal Performances presentation of The Peony Pavilion — seen on two of the three days, Friday and Sunday, of the nine-hour series at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley — put me precisely in that neophyte position. I will not have to try to remember what it feels like to be overwhelmed for a long time. The beauty of this production, by the Suzhou Kun Opera Theatre of Jiangsu, is that you are enveloped in a profusion of meticulously coordinated details, rather than bludgeoned by size and spectacle. Peony Pavilion’s success rests on the universal foundation of all great classic theater: a great story, told by a master storyteller. Written in 1598, Tang Xianzu elaborated a story with obvious folktale roots into a vivid fresco involving several subplots and characters from all classes of Chinese society. Tang’s breadth of vision and sense of structure was truly Shakespearean. Reduced to bare essentials, Peony is about a governor’s daughter, Du Liniang, who falls asleep in a garden and meets the man of her dreams. In her dream, they make love in the garden’s peony pavilion. Upon waking, Du Liniang tries to recall the traces of the dream, but her search for the young man is fruitless. She pines and wastes away. But before she dies, she paints her portrait and inscribes it with a poem to her unknown lover, and requests that it be hidden next to her grave under the garden’s plum tree. After her death, the judge of hell is impressed by her beauty and her story, and he orders her release. Meanwhile, Du Liniang’s betrothed, the scholar Liu Mengmei, is on his way to tak