古希腊悲剧与元杂剧叙事方式差异性之探源——中西戏剧文化背景的差异性

On the Diffrence of Narrative Way Between Ancient Greek Tragedy and Yuan Traditional Opera——The Difference of Theatric Cultural Background Between China and Western

古希腊悲剧和元杂剧皆为中西方戏剧的成熟形态,然二者在戏剧的叙事方式上有着明显的差异性:古希腊悲剧多倒叙、插叙等叙事方式,表现为锁闭式的结构;中国元杂剧则基本采用平铺直叙的叙事方式,式开放式的戏剧结构。这两种典型的叙事方式之形成与其生长的文化土壤、逻辑观念、民族性格有着紧密的联系。

Ancient Greek Tragedy and Yuan Traditional Opera are both the mature form of theatre, however, there are obvious differences of narrative way between them. Ancient Greek Tragedy always uses narrative way such as flashback, interpolation and so on, exhibiting the structure of locking. Chinese Yuan Traditional Opera is in the basic use of descriptive narrative, displaying the structure for opening. These two typical narrative ways have close tie with their cultural soil ,logic concepts ,national character.