《三国演义》与戏剧曲艺渊源关系研究述要

On Contributions of Chinese Drama and Folk Arts to Romance of the Three Kingdoms

戏剧曲艺与《三国演义》的关系十分密切。从成书的角度而言,元杂剧三国戏对《三国演义》的影响尤为重要而直接。20世纪20年代以来,研究者除了在钩稽和统计三国戏方面取得了较大的进展外,也从故事情节、人物形象、思想倾向、艺术表现、文化精神等方面对元杂剧三国戏对罗贯中创作的影响进行了比较系统深入的探讨。

Traditional Chinese drama and folk arts have much bearing on the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. As far as its viewpoint is concerned, the novel is especially and directly influenced by the YuanDynasty poetic drama. Since the 1920s, researchers have made great progress not only in investigating and collecting the drama related to the novel, but also in systematically probing into the influences of relevant Yuan-Dynasty dramas on the author Luo Guanzhong＇ s writing, in terms of his scenario arrangement, characters, ideology, artistic expressions, cultural spirit, etc.