The Study On The Comparativity Of Tang Xianzu And Jiang Shiquan’s Operas

Tang Xianzu and Jiang Shiquan are both from Jiangxi. While lived in different times, but they have very similar life experience. Instead of a power or kitsch, both of them were busy on the pursuit of an independent personality. In the opera creation, regardless of drama structure, plot narration or song, Jiang Shiquan not only got inheritance but also made a creativity according to Tang Xianzu’s “Linchuan Four Dreams”. Tang’s drama writing was neither influenced by Wu Kun Opera nor it stuck to the Jiugong Four. On the other way, it focused on the persuit of “interest and charm”.Jiang wrote the drama as a poet. As a result, he paid attention to both the lyrics and the drama. Besides, they two have the similar comlex feelings on Jiangxi’s cultural tradition. However, since the two men lived in different times and also the two person had accepted different traditional Confucianism ethics to the different degrees, which was reflected in the drama that they may have similarities in the ideological but the differences of their operas were still very obvious. This paper will draw on the theory of comparative literature on the view of "inheritance and change " to study on the comparativity of Tang Xianzu and Jiang Shiquan’s Operas scientificly and deeply from their different life experiencesthe and personality styles, regional cultures, romance and drama creations. At the same time,it will be combined with the history of each different historical period of social and cultural background and the development of opera since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.