升平署抄本《连城璧》及相关剧作考述

Research on Manuscripts of Shengping Bureau Invaluable Jade and Related Works

李玉《连城璧》传奇今仅存清升平署抄残本,剧演战国时期蔺相如得荐,继而奉璧入秦,最终完璧归赵的故事。与元明时期同类题材剧相比,《连城璧》既不以戏说历史的元杂剧《渑池会》为蓝本,也跳出了明传奇《箱环记》的才子佳人戏模式,是比较严肃的历史剧。清中叶之后,昆乱剧作主要按完璧归赵、廉颇争功、负荆请罪等三类情节演绎与完璧归赵相关的故事。清车王府曲本与内廷本所收剧作多由明清传奇改编而来,一方面体现出明清传奇对后世相关剧本的影响,另一方面,从后世演出剧本对前代作品的改编体现出同一题材戏剧作品在不同时期的面貌。

The opera Invaluable Jade is written by Li Yu, and it is only preserved the incomplete manuscripts of Shengping bureau. It is a story about Lin Xiangru in the period of the Warring States. Compared with the works of the same subject in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, Invaluable Jade neither takes the opera of the Yuan dynasty Meeting in MianChi as the blueprint, nor the opera of the Ming dynasty opera Note of XiangHuan. It is a serious historic opera. In the late Qing dynasty, the plots of related works in kunqu opera and local drama can be divided into three kinds. They are adapted from the operas in the Ming and Qing dynasty. On one hand, the adaption reflects the influence of operas in the Ming and Qing dynasties on works of later ages; on the other hand, works in the later ages represent different performances of works with the same theme in different periods.