试论唐英戏曲的“鬼神”形象

On Images of “Ghosts”in Tang Ying's Drama

唐英现存剧作十七种,多处运用"鬼神"形象。将"鬼神"形象渗入戏曲故事的叙述模式中,一方面对剧情发挥着结构性功能的作用;另一方面凸显出戏曲的教化意义,表明儒释道的"因果观念"相通之处。这种形象的运用,不仅与民间信仰文化相关,也是剧作家有意而为之的创作自觉。

There exist 17 dramas by Tang Ying, in many of which there appear ＂ghosts＂ images. Putting ＂ghosts＂ images into narrative mode of dramas, on the one hand, serves as the structural functions; on the other hand, highlights the significance of enlightenment. It indicates that the common aspects in the causation conceptions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. Besides, the application of these images is not only related with the folk cultural religion, hut also with the dramatist＇s self- consciousness in writing.