自铸伟词 字字本色——谈关汉卿杂剧的语言特色

On the Language Characteristics of the Poetic Drama of the Yuan Dynasty Written by Guan Hanqing

关汉卿为元杂剧代表作家,他创作的社会剧、爱情婚姻剧和历史剧,独具语言特色:鲜亮活泼,明白如话,曲尽人情,字字本色。关汉卿如话本色的语言,缘于他不以倡优为耻且长期生活在勾栏、行院和书会里,和下层人们生活在一起,成为名副其实的民间艺人,对下层艺人的活动、行为、语言都有着极丰富的感性经验,是真正的“梨园领袖”、“编修师首”和“杂剧班头”。

As a representative of the poetic drama of the Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing wrote plays ofproblerms, plays of love and marriage, and history plays. His plays show great ingenuity in language ex-pression. His language is bright - colored and lively, and is as explicit as daily conversation. His lan-guage also brings out human feelings in a subtle and skillful way, so that every word has a distinctivecharacter. The reason for this is that he did not feel disgraced for being an entertainer. He lived for along time in the theatres, houses of prostitutes and actresses and other places of entertainment, and livedamong people of the lower strata of society. He was a veritable folk actor, and had very rich experiencesabout the activity, behavior, and language of the folk actors of the lower strata of society. He was the realleader of the theatre, master in play writing and the head of the performers of the poetic drama of theYuan Dynasty.