以情释理:孟称舜戏曲传情论新探

Revealing Reason with Emotion——A New Exploration on Meng Chengshun's Theory of Expressing Feelings with Drama

孟称舜是晚明剧坛杰出的戏曲作家兼理论家。作为临川派嫡裔,他深受汤显祖"至情"说影响,主张"曲贵传情",并创造性地提出了与之相应的表现方法,其剧作也具有鲜明的言情倾向。而明清易代之际的社会环境、时代思潮以及自身遭遇,又使其戏曲理论和创作发生了很大变化,最终走上了一条以情释理、以理抒情的情理结合的创作道路。

Meng Chengshun was a well - known drama writer and theorist in late Ming Dynasty. As the descendants of ＂Lin chuan branch＂, he was deeply influenced by Tang Xianzu＇s ＂emotion supreme＂ theory and claimed that the value of drama lied in feeling expression. Later he creatively proposed some corresponding techniques of expression. Thus, his drama showed obvi- ous tendency of sentimental plot. Influenced by social changes, ihe trend of thoughts, and personal experiences during the transi- tion from the Ming to the Qing Dynasty, the drama theory and creation underwent great changes and finally came to a creation way of revealing reason with emotion, expressing emotion with reason and combining reason with emotion.