The Butterfly Lovers: The Legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai: Four Versions, with Related Texts

摘要

For centuries the tragic romance of Liang Shanbo Silitt and Zhu Yingtai $13? cf had enjoyed widespread popularity in traditional China, in the form of ballads, songs, tales, and opera dramas, and in modern times has been adapted to motion pictures, first in 1926 with several subsequent remakes, in 1954 in the People's Republic, again with several remakes, and in 1963 the most successful version was produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong and reissued many times since to large enthusiastic audiences. Sixteen modern novels and ten television dramas based on the romance have also appeared.