biography
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Dang Xianzu
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also spelled Tang Hsien-tsu
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pronunciation:
[dang shantsoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1550–1616)
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| biography:
| Chinese playwright and minor official. He wrote a play-cycle, The Four Dreams, in which a character takes up monasticism due to the futility of his future life seen in a dream. His most famous work, The Peony Pavilion, deals (in 55 scenes) with a love of such intensity that it can raise the dead. |
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