宋元南戏的珍贵遗存——莆仙戏《王魁》、《刘锡》、《陈光蕊》考述

The Valuable Inheritance of the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties: A Textual Research on Wang Kui,Liu Xi,Chen Guangrui of Puxian Opera

宋元南戏剧本流传于世者甚少,给今人的研究造成极大的不便。然而,在被誉为“宋元南戏活化石”的福建古老剧种莆仙戏中,却完整地保留了一批佚失已久的南戏剧目。比如《王魁》、《刘锡》、《陈光蕊》等剧目,与早期南戏有着极为密切的关系,是研究南戏十分宝贵的资料。通过对其考察与辨析,将为南戏研究提供一些新的材料,也可为南戏研究开拓一条新的途径。

As very few plays of the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties have been preserved today, it is very difficult to study them. But some plays remain intact in Puxian Opera, a ancient genre of drama in Fujian. Thus it is called the living fossil of the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Some Puxian Opera plays such as Wang Kui, Liu Xi, Chen Guangrui have close relations with early Southern Opera. They are very valuable data for the study of the Southern Opera, as these new materials can help to open up a new way to study the ancient drama.