英文摘要 |
In the late Ching dynasty, Hsuan-Ting created“Picture and Poem Album of Thirty Six Comedian Plays”(三十六聲粉鐸圖詠) in which he collected thirty six popular fragmented highlights of the clown role of the Kun opera play. Half of these plays originated from operas of the Yuan or Ming dynasties.
The original intention of these fragmented highlights, such as“Pu Chen, Mu Tan Ting”(牡丹亭.僕偵)and“Pan Yang Li Luan , Pai Yueh Ting”(拜月亭.扮恙離鸞)created by playwrights in Yuan and Ming dynasty, was to regulate between the awkward silence and the warmth on the stage. The subordinate figures of Jing and Chou were not deliberately portrayed during the entire performance. Some fragmented highlights were performed during the Jia-Jing period; however, there was no independent existence value for comedy highlights during the days in which the“Chu”was the main aesthetic standard on the stage. Therefore, only few Jing and Chou highlights in the comedy album were included in the libretto for their particularity, but not in the performance script of the Ming dynasty. Nevertheless, almost all of them can be found in the Ching dynasty's selected opera work“Chui Pai Chiu”.
If comparing those selected highlights of the album to the complete performance scripts of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it can be found that the clown role of the Kun opera had been entrusted with more spoken parts for making the role more popular and more vivid. In addition, we witness the process in which the roles of the Jing and Chou evolved from subordinate figures to major characters. It is also found that the two roles clearly divided into three categories the Jing, Fu, and Chou during the alternating times of the Ming and Ching dynasties. By making this comparison, we have found not only the maturation of the clown role of the Kun opera but the actors delegated new performance styles and aesthetic features to the original fragmented highlights through innovation and revision efforts |