冯梦龙与苏州派剧作家

Feng Menglong and Local Opera Writers from the Suzhou School

冯梦龙是苏州派剧作家的同乡前辈,曾为李玉、毕魏改订传奇,并对两位青年才俊不吝奖掖与提携,还和张大复讨论曲谱与剧作。冯梦龙的文学创作与戏曲主张对苏州派剧作家产生了明显影响。苏州派剧作家受冯梦龙的启发,用苏州的历史、传说和时事编剧,直接从冯氏的"三言"中取材。冯梦龙严守曲律的戏曲创作主张和文学教化观也为苏州派剧作家普遍接受。可以说,冯梦龙是苏州派剧作家的戏曲导师,苏州派产生和形成的重要推手。

As a fellow townsman and a predecessor of the local opera writers from the Suzhou School, Feng Menglong not only helped Li Yu and Bi Wei with their local opera writing, but also spared no efforts to praise and promote these two young talented opera writers. In addition, Feng had heated discussions with another opera writer Zhang Dafu about the writing of music scores and stories. Feng made an outstanding influence on the opera writers of the Suzhou School with his ideas about literary creation and local opera. Inspired and enlightened by Feng, the opera writers from the Suzhou School wrote stories for their local opera creation by making use of the history, legends and current events of the Suzhou city. What is more, they also directly based their stories on San Yan written by Feng Menglong. In his theory of local opera writing, Feng emphasized the importance of keeping strict restriction on the rules of local opera creation. Both his theory of local opera writing and his view of education through literature were widely accepted by the opera writers of the Suzhou School. It can be concluded that Feng was the teacher of local opera writing for the playwrights from the Suzhou School, and also an important advocator for the formation and development of the Suzhou School.