徐渭与戏曲“本色”论

Xu Wei and "True-color" Theory of Traditional Opera

"本色"论曲自元代既散见于曲论家,历经明初、中期的发展,终成为独树一帜的戏曲"本色"论,极大地丰富和完善了中国古代文学理论的内容。就戏曲"本色"论发展过程而言,徐渭无疑是其中贡献最有力者。徐渭是戏曲史上最早从戏曲的语言、角色、剧情和声律四个方面论述戏曲的"本色"艺术特征的论家,他的理论实现了戏曲"本色"论由片面性向全面性、无序性向系统性、感悟性向理论性的转化,将过去那种只言片语式的"本色"曲论发展为一个较为完整的戏曲"本色"论。

The ＂true-color＂ theory was used to discuss the traditional opera in Yuan Dynasty. Upon further development in the early and middle period of Ming Dynasty, it became a unique theory of traditional Chinese opera, greatly enriching and improving the content of Chinese ancient literary theory. As far as the development of the theory goes, Xu Wei was the one who made the greatest contribution. He was the earliest in the opera history to discuss the artistic features of the theory in terms of language, role, plot and rhythm. It was due to his theory that the ＂true-color＂ theory realized its transition from being one-sided to comprehensive, disorderly to systematic and perceptual to theoretical, thus, the once fragmentary theory develooed into a more comolete theory.