汪石青戲曲創作考論

A Research on Wang Shiqing (Wang Shih-Tsing)’s Traditional Chinese Opera Creation

汪石青具有比較清晰的戲曲理論觀念，創作雜劇一種、傳奇二種，積累了較為豐富的創作經驗。汪石青以本色雅正、維護傳統戲曲樣式的理論觀念、以憤沉不平與自抒心曲、傳統愛情故事的詮釋與共鳴、家庭倫理與政治時事相結合的戲曲創作，寄託了極其強烈且個性鮮明的思想感情，表達了對於政治局勢、國家民族命運的深切關注，反映了近代戲曲在繼承傳統觀念與學習西方思想之間、表現政治事件與抒發個人情感之間尋求變革出路和創新可能的總體趨勢。汪石青在詩詞、散曲創作等方面也取得了突出成就，是一位具有獨特戲曲史和文學史意義、值得關注的近現代文學家，應當引起中國近現代文學和中國戲曲史研究者的注意。

Wang Shiqing had distinct theoretical concepts about traditional Chinese opera. With works of one Zaju and two Chuanqi operas, he presided over a rich accumulation of creative experience. Wang Shiqing’s works embody elegance and decency, and his theoretical concepts defend traditional opera’s forms. Reinterpreting and resonating with traditional romance, the operas combine grief with indignation in self-narration, as well as family-based ethics and reference to political situations. He infused these works with extremely strong and distinctive emotions, expressing his deep concern about political situations and the nation’s destiny, reflecting a general tendency in modern drama of searching for possibilities of innovation and a revolutionary way out from the alternatives of simply carrying on tradition or learning occidental concepts, and of presentation of political events or expression of personal emotions. Meanwhile, Wang Shiqing also made outstanding achievements in creating poetry (poems and ci) and lyric verses (sanqu), which made him a modern litterateur of historical significance in both traditional Chinese opera and literature, and made him worthy of attention from researchers of Chinese modern and contemporary literature and history of traditional Chinese opera.