A Study Of Lyric Poems About Drama In The Early Qing Dynasty

The lyric poems about drama take drama as the object of expression,express the poets’ aesthetic standards and value judgment of dramas through dramatic text,theatrical performance,theatrical actor’s chant and comment.The lyric poems about drama is the unity of the object of the drama and the creative power of the poet.Quan Qing Ci ·Shunkang Volume is an important chronological data in Chinese poem studies,which gives us an overall presentation of the creation situation and style of poem circles in the early Qing Dynasty.The recording of the lyric poems about drama in the early Qing Dynasty in this book constitutes an important part of the Chinese drama literature,reflects the interaction between poems and Dramas in Qing Dynasty,which has unique historical value.On the basis of collecting the lyric poems about drama in Quan Qing Ci ·Shunkang Volume,this thesis intends to sort out,summarize and analyze these poems.This thesis is divided into four parts:The introduction mainly expounds the basis and significance of the selected topic of this thesis,make a summary of the research status on the lyric poems about drama in the early Qing Dynasty as well as put forward innovations and research methods.The first chapter makes an overall investigation on the lyric poems about drama in the early Qing Dynasty.This kind of poems emerged in Song Dynasty and flourished in Qing Dynasty,which closely related to the prosperity of theatrical performances the rise of drama theory in the early Qing Dynasty.The appearance of this kind of poems also points out a new way of drama evaluation.The lyric poems about drama experienced three stages in Shunkang period: starting,developing and flourishing.The number of poems,poets’ mood and themes of poems are all different in the three stages.At the same time,through the research on the identity of poets,we can have a more general understanding of the content and background of the lyric poems about drama.The second chapter discusses the historical value and artistic features of the lyric poems about drama in the early Qing Dynasty.Subjected to genre restrictions,this kind of poems are often short and concise,as well as full of strong emotional colouring,neglected by the field of drama research for a long time.In fact,some performance modes,repertoire and theatrical actors which are often involved in the lyric poems about drama may not exist in the drama historical data.So this kind of poems has extremely high research value.Different from preface,postscript and criticism about drama,lyric poems like to reflect the real time experience in human viewing,which show the The unique viewing angle of the poets.The content of this kind of poems doesn’t follow the beaten track.The system creation of its own brings a unique aesthetic experience to readers.The third chapter is the special study of the lyric poems about drama,two special parts of the this kind of poems in the early Qing Dynasty were selected and analysed.Li Wen’s 20 poems about "Pictures of The West Chamber" is the only group of Zuci in the early Qing Dynasty.These are the poems about the illustrations in "The Romance of West Chamber".The expression of poet’s feelings according to pictures is very interesting;The female drama "appears repeatedly in the lyric poems about drama in the early Qing Dynasty.We can not find a precise definition of it,nor can we find any records of female drama in the drama history.In this chapter,I try to make an visual interpretation of female drama by taking the related words of female drama as the study object.In appendix,346 lyric poems about drama from Quan Qing Ci ·Shunkang Volumeare(and its supplement)are collected for reference and used as a supplement to the drama materials.