Zheng Guangzu

Zheng Guangzu, courtesy name 德輝 Dé Huī, was a Chinese playwright, who was born in about 1260 and died around 1320.
He was one of the most celebrated of the playwrights who flourished during the second period of the zaju, the name given to the most highly rated form of opera during the Yuan dynasty, and of sanqu 散曲, pinyin: sănqŭ. He has traditionally always been numbered among the Four Great Yuan Dramatists.
Zheng Guangzu was born in Pingyang. Along with other playwrights, he helped to bring about the revival of interest in zaju drama throughout the south, particularly in Hangzhou. Eighteen plays are attributed to him, only eight of which are still extant. In the case of five of these his authorship is undisputed. These include Zhōugōng Shèzhèng, Wáng Càn Dēng Lóu, Hànlín Fēngyuè and Qiànnǚ Líhún. The last of these is the best-known, and almost certainly inspired the far more famous Ming dynasty play Mudan Ting by Tang Xianzu.
Translations
• West, Stephen H. West and Idema, Wilt L., Monks, Bandits, Lovers and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays, Hackett Publishing Company, 2010, pp. 195–236
• Le Mal d’amour de Qiannü ou L’Âme qui se sépara de son corps, comédie en prose et en vers composée par Zheng Guangzu, Isabella Falaschi, Trieste, Università degli Studi, 2001, p. 209 ff.