孟称舜戏曲语言审美论探胜

On Language Aesthetics of Meng Chengshun's Drama

孟称舜是晚明剧坛杰出的戏曲作家兼理论家,他非常重视戏曲语言的美学价值,认为戏曲语言的美学价值主要体现在四个方面:曲白兼美,本色当行,形象而富于个性色彩,有"趣"有"味"。孟称舜的戏曲语言审美论既继承了前人的成果,又有自己的创新,在中国古典戏剧理论史上具有举足轻重的地位。

Meng Chenshun is an outstanding drama writer and theorist of late Ming dynasty. He attaches an great impor- tance to the aesthetic values of drama language. He thinks that drama language aesthetic value is mainly manifested in four aspects.. Song words and spoken parts the same attention, Language popular conforms to the theater, and bound in per- sonality on the color image and have “fun” and “taste”. Meng Chenshun＇s aesthetic theory of drama language not only in- herited the predecessors＇ achievements, but hasits own innovation. He estalished himself as the pivotal status in the his- tory of the Chinese classical drama.