"a Dream Of Red Mansions," Study Of Drama

"The Dream of the Red Chamber" is the most famous Chinese classic novel. Since it was presented to the public, it became very popular in a short time. So mostly at the same time, the traditional dramatic form of this novel was played on the stage. From then on, these dramas were rehearsed in times. Its history was already more than 200 years.To these works, people often thought they were the affiliation of "The Dream of the Red Chamber". Some paper which researched these works usually focused on the relationship between the original work and the adaption. People used to criticize them by the standard of coinciding with original work. The dramas'independent value was always ignored by researchers.The paper intends to make some new research of "The Dream of the Red Chamber". For example their particular position in the transform history of traditional drama. On the other hand, the drama exploded the field of adaption which was from novel to drama.There are four chapters and an introduction in the paper. In the introduction, I mainly reviewed the research history of this theme, and explained the reason why I chose this theme to do my research. In Chapter one, I carded all the dramas and their authors in Qing Dynasty, modern times and the contemporary era. Then in Chapter two, I emphasize the concrete analysis of adaption which was from novel to drama. In chapter three, I concluded the analysis in before chapter and discussed the meaning of the phenomenon in adaption. In the last chapter, I illustrated the influence of these dramas, how people to accept it and criticize it, and their position in the literary history, dramatic history and art history.