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| | Summary and Evaluation of China, Korea & Japan to 1875 by Sanderson Beck |
 | | Actually a series of five plays, this drama is very romantic and affirms the value of a scholar passing the exams to gain success. |
 | | Gao Ming's The Lute is a transitional play between the Yuan and Ming eras in which a loyal wife suffers dire poverty in the country while her young husband is rewarded for excelling on the examination at the capital. |
 | | In the Purple Hairpin he gave a tragic story a happy ending, but he is most famous for the romantic play, The Peony Pavilion, in which a beautiful woman makes love to a scholar in a dream, paints her portrait, dies for love, and comes back to life to elope with him. |
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