A Study Of The Entrance And Exit Poetry Of Yuan Drama

The following text is a study of the entrance and exit poetry of Yuan Drama, which researches into the quantity, poetic theory and types of the entrance and exit poetry in Yuan Drama, analyzes characteristics, investigates the origin, considers its role of Yuan Drama.Up to present the definitions of "entrance poetry" and "exit poetry" are not settled, therefore the first chapter recites the category of these names.The second chapter reports on circumstance of the past studies.The third chapter takes statistics of entrance and exit poetry by dramatist, editions and themes, analyzes its casual relations.The forth chapter inspects poetic theory of entrance and exit poetry, induces its formal characteristics.The fifth chapter discusses conventional entrance and exit poetry, indicates characteristics of editions, and looks for the origin among the Yuan edition plays and the Huaben short story in Song and Yuan dynasties.Editions of Ming Court records in "Maiwangguan redaction" have characteristics of the quantity, poetic theory and typification in entrance and exit poetry, therefore from the third chapter to the fifth chapter put emphasis on Ming dynasty Court editions.