A study of Tang Hsien-Tsu’s commentary of drama

• Main Authors: Pi-Hui Weng, 翁碧慧
• Other Authors: 曾永義
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16786333571244552218

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 中國文學研究所 === 96 === The commentary of drama was in vogue during the late Ming dynasty, because the amusement demand of civilian, prosperous culture of opera and flourishing development of book publication. In the series of text about “Tang Hsien-Tsu’s commentary of drama”, which was thought to be written by Tang Hsien-Tsu himself, were not all Tang Hsien-Tsu’s commentary. Because of distinguishing “the Tang Hsien-Tsu’s commentary of drama” true and false, using these commentary materials is helpful to construct or supply the drama theory of Tang Hsien-Tsu. However, even if the commentary was forged to be Tang Hsien-Tsu''s, it can still exhibit the popular viewpoint of opera at that time. Therefore, a research about this is necessary and valuable. The research methodology of thesis is to grasp all scholar''s dispute. After that, the problems of the commentaries are surveyed in four respects. First, to show the relations between“drama author”, “play writing times” and Tang Hsien-Tsu''s life; Second, to investigate the book workshops and types forged; Third, to compare various of drama commentaries in order to distinguish the relations of drama commentaries; Fourth, to analyze comment intension whether it accords with thoughts, literature and art viewpoints of Tang Hsien-Tsu. The commentaries of “Tung chieh yuen his hsiang” and “Hung fu ji” made by Tang Hsien-Tsu are reliable. We use these commentaries to show Tang Hsien-Tsu''s drama theory. First, though “meaning of song” was valued, the arrangement of plot was emphasized more and more; Second, for personage image-building, impelling personages to be changed into “individualized development” from the “the type” was due to the thought of “true feelings”. The commentaries of “Hung mei ji ”, “I meng ji”, “Chien yu ji” and “Chieh hsia ji” were not made by Tang Hsien-Tsu, but commentators made these like Tang Hsien-Tsu. These commentators, first, followed the theme about “the feeling” and “the dream” of Tang Hsien-Tsu; Second, they paid attention to the lyric words of a song and characterization about “real feelings”; Third, they laid stress on the appearing of plot; Fourth, they thought highly of the need of performing on the field so they had already set up the idea of the libretto, “performs on the field”, gradually.