摘要
SEVENTY years ago,in 1922,Shakespeare′s famous dramaThe Merchant of Venice wasadapted for Peking opera and per-formed by the noted Peking operaactor Xia Keshan.This was the firstforeign drama put on the Chinesestage in local opera formIn the eighteenth and nine-teenth centuries the Yuan DynastyOpera The Orphan of the Zhal
