“爱”与美”的胜利——论王统照七幕话剧《死后之胜利》

The Triumph of Love and Beauty: Comment on Wangtongzhao’s seven - crutain drama , The Triumph after Death

王统照1925年发表的七幕话剧剧本《死后之胜利》讴歌了"爱"与"美"的思想及为"爱"与"美"献身的艺术家,暴露了黑暗的现实,鞭挞了假、恶、丑,也表现了爱情婚姻和个性解放等社会问题。它通过以现实主义为主,以浪漫主义、象征主义为辅的相协调的创作方法,塑造了剧中人鲜明的人物形象和发展性格;通过不断的冲突和悬念达到高潮,形成递进式的上升结构。它的语言既有典雅精炼的传统风格,又有强烈的现代气息。它受到王尔德《莎乐美》的影响,但又避免了唯美主义。它的局限性主要是对"爱"与"美"的表现太理性化。但在20世纪20年代中国现代戏剧的开创期,还是唯一的七幕写实浪漫象征悲剧,特别是它对演员表演神态的舞台指示的实践和理论是一大贡献。

The seven - curtain drama play, the Triumph after Death , which was written by WangTongzhao and was published in 1925 deserves exhumation and research. It sang the praise of the thoughts of love and beauty and the artists who devote themselves to love and beauty , and disclosed the dark reality, castigated the false, evil and ugly, and also represented the social problems, such as affection s and marriage and individual liberation. Using the creational way in harmony with the realism as the major method and the romanticism and symbolism as minor methods, the vivid characteristic portraits and the developing personality in the play were figured. It climaxed through continuous conflicts and suspense, and formed the step - up structure. There arc both traditional, elegant and refined style and intensive modem breath in its language. It accepted the influence of Wilde＇s Salomc, but it avoided aestheticism. However , it has defects and limitation either ： its representation about love and beauty was too sensitive, and its dramatis personae were too sensitive and ideal either and were of great scarcity of vivid and abundant details, therefore it can not arrive at the validity and abundance which Angles have said in Shakespeare＇s drama , But at the beginning of the era of the modem drama history of China in 1920s, it was the only seven - curtain symbolic tragedy which was written realistically, and particularly the theory and practice about the instructions to the manner of the actor＇s performance on the stage was its great contribution. There should be a certain status of it in modem drama history.