以曲作史:明清时期剧作家创作中的时事情结

明清两代是我国传统戏剧创作和理论研究的大发展时期,时势动荡又激起剧作家对跌宕时事的关注,并将此作为创作时事剧的题材而演绎成剧,在"传奇十部九相思"的明清剧坛,在男女风情之外,开拓了戏曲题材的广阔新天地。明清剧作者对时事的关注乃是基于位卑未敢忘忧国的干政心态,直面现实、讥切时弊的无畏气魄以及追求效性的媚俗倾向等心理预期。"以曲作史"以剧作保存时事变迁,显示了明清剧作的浓重时事情结。

History Preserved in Traditional Chinese Operas: A Discussion of the Mind of the Author to Create Current Event Drama in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

The Ming and Qing Dynasties are important periods of the development of the creation and theoretical study of traditional Chinese operas.The turbulent current situations aroused the playwriters' concern for current events,and took this as the subject of their plays,which wrought great changes in the situation of nine out of ten legendary operas are about lovesickness in the dramatic field of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The attention to current events on the part of the playwrights of the two dynasties was b...