比起当时士大夫们“罕有留意”的宋元南戏来,后起的元人杂剧却幸运得多,有那么多名公才俊来编写剧本,也有那么多好演员来演出这些戏。早在元代就有钟嗣成写了《录鬼簿》来记录150多个剧作家写的几百个杂剧(后来又有明人的《续编》增补了70多人的70多个杂剧),更有夏庭芝的《青楼 Compared with the “Southern Song and Yuan Dynasties” where the doctors and the doctors were “rarely noticed”, the late Yuan drama was much more fortunate. There were so many virtuous men to write the script and there were so many good actors to perform these plays. As early as the Yuan dynasty, Zhong Sicheng wrote the “recorded ghost book” to record hundreds of dramas written by more than 150 dramatists (later, there are more than 70 dramas of more than 70 dramas added by the Ming Dynasty), and more Xia Tingzhi’s "brothel