晚明绍兴坊刻戏曲考略

Brief Review on OperasPrinted by Shaoxing Bookstores in Late Ming Dynasty

晚明越中曲家辈出,戏曲作品和曲论专著不断涌现。与戏曲创作和戏曲评论的热闹景象相称的是,晚明绍兴书坊刻印戏曲的现象也颇为可观,据考,从万历至崇祯年间共有十家书坊刊印过戏曲书籍。因越中书坊主本身多是曲家或文学素养深厚的文人,其精心编选并考核严谨而出版的作品,还原了绍兴作为晚明戏曲商业出版重要地区的坊刻特色,也为明清戏曲的持续发展提供了可资借鉴的范本。

In the late Ming dynasty, there sprang up a wide range of opera composers, operas and monographs on opera theory. What can be commensurate to the prosperity of opera creation and opera comments is a considerable number of operas printed by Shaoxing bookstores in the late Ming dynasty from Emperor Wanli to Emperor Chongzhen, when a total of ten bookstores printed opera books. Most of the owners were themselves learned composers or men of letters, through whose carefully edited and rigorously examined works we can have a glimpse of the flourishing publication of dramas in Shaoxing. Those works provide reference for the development of operas in the Ming and Qing dynasties.