Meng Said Shun Drama Creation And Theoretical Research

With the enlargement of studying domain and going deep into for Chinese traditional play history, some writer's works which are not well-known in the past are viewed highly by people. For example, Meng Cheng-shun who is a playwriter in the period of Late Ming and Early Qing dynasty. Meng Cheng-shun'works are very richful, and his creation of miscellaneous dramatic and legendary is important to the history of traditional play. In recent years, the study of scholars on Meng Cheng-shun's traditional play is scattered due to the shortage of data. In this paper, basing on the comprehensive data relating with Meng Cheng-shun, we try to study and analyze Meng Cheng-shun's creation and theory of traditional play as well as his life and association. Except the preface, there are three chapters in the text.The preface mainly investigates the research of Meng Chengshun in recent years, and points out achievement and demerit. The text includes three chapters:The first chapter is chiefly inquired into to the life and association of Meng Cheng-shun. On the basis of forefathers' research accomplishments, the thesis tries to collect the existing materials and reveals Meng Cheng-shun's personal character, life and association comprehensively. Particularly, consequently it can be sure that Meng Cheng-hun at the latest is born in Wanli 26 years of Ming dynasty. So that Meng Cheng-shun's life is more clearly. We can know Meng Cheng-shun's conduct and knowledge through analyzing his extraction life and association records, thereby a substantial platform is established for us to learning Meng Cheng-shun's creation and his theory of traditional play exactly and deeply.The second chapter is chiefly to analyze Meng Cheng-shun's traditional play creation. All works of Meng Cheng-shun is divided into romantic plays and society historical play according to his creation ideal, then macroanalysis and comparison is implemented for two kinds of works from the angle of different cultural level, it is important to comprehend the change and reason of his creation. Finally, the comparison analyses with other writers of Linchuan School are studied, as a consequence the creation characteristic of Meng Cheng-shun is fetched out.The third chapter is mainly to analyze the relationship between his traditional play creation and theory. The thesis tries to analyze the close relationship from four parts: expressions, figure, language and style, so to show that Meng Cheng-shun is not only an excellent playwriter but also a traditional play theorist.