Study On Ming Dynasty Drama Preface And Postscript

The opera preface and postscript has the important state,as one of the most important parts,drama preface and postscript plays an irreplaceable role in enriching the opera preface and postscript.After experienced the boom in the Yuan Dynasty,drama enters into a new development in the Ming Dynasty.Drama has a large number of productions in the Ming Dynasty,at the same time,drama preface and postscript also has been made a breakthrough development.In this paper,drama preface and postscript included in the“Chinese Classical Traditional Opera On Preface and Postscript Assembly”published in 1989 as the original text,divide it into parts,with the analysis of the drama content reflected in different periods,reappearing the development of the Ming drama,to reveal the value and theoretical value of the text.First,review the history of preface and postscript,then,making a simple comparison of their characteristics.Second,Analysis the reasons for the prosperity of drama in the Ming Dynasty and from several aspects,such as the needs of self development,the attention of the rulers of the Ming Dynasty,the publishing of printing,the stimulation of the interests and the characters of preface and postscript.The third part is the general outline of the Ming Dynasty drama preface and postscript.The fourth part is under the social background of the early Ming Dynasty,divided the drama preface and postscript into two parts,Zhu Quan、Zhu Youdun and country sixteen.The development of the early Ming Dynasty drama is examined by analyzing their opera prefaces.The fourth part starts from the South drama of the middle and late Ming Dynasty,based on Xu Wei’s “the Four tones of classical Chinese Apes”“Songs Instead of Howling” as an example,through the analysis of works about southern drama creation,characteristics and the author’s feelings.This part also takes Fu Yichen’s "Su Men Xiao" series as example,exploring the cause of such plays and the value of their existence.The last part mainly compares the similarities and differences of the prescript.