失传元杂剧《秋夜蕊珠宫》本事新考

A New Investigation into the Lost Yuan Zaju Rui Zhu Gong in the Autumn Night

元代庾天锡的杂剧《秋夜蕊珠宫》今已失传,前辈学者严敦易等曾致力于此剧本事的发微,有成果问世。但其观点多有争议,难成定论。本文通过对元曲、话本小说等文献资料的考订、爬梳,又有所获《秋夜蕊珠宫》之本事乃为史籍中所载“王子高遇芙蓉仙”之故事。联系元散曲等资料,此故事在元代流布甚广,庾天锡即以此题材创作杂剧。

Yu Tianxi’s Rui Zhu Gong in the Autumn Night in the Yuan Dynasty had long been lost. Scholars like Yan Dunyi of previous generations had devoted themselves to the investigation of it and had made some achievements which, in turn, aroused disputations. This paper makes a new contribution to this study by making archeological studies of such documents as the Yuan poetic drama and stories. The author believes that Rui Zhu Gong in the Autumn Night was taken from Master Feng Yue’s New Stories from the Green Window of Song Dynasty in which a story about “Prince Gao Running into Fairy Lotus” is told, which was very popular among the Yuan literati and served as subject matter for Yu Tianxi’s play.