戏曲理论在拟话本创作上的运用——李渔小说《无声戏》《十二楼》初探

Application of the Opera Theory to Narration——An Example of Li Yu's “A Silent Play” and “the 12th Floor”

中国古典文学作品的发展无论是体裁还是思想内蕴都是一个源源不断地传承的过程,从明末清初开始,戏曲艺术进入了文人的研究视野。李渔的戏剧作品上承元代元明话本,下接清代的小说戏剧,兼具话本小说与戏剧的艺术特性,他在《闲情偶寄》中总结的一整套戏曲创作理论对后世影响极大。他的两部拟话本小说《无声戏》(又名《连城璧》)和《十二楼》(又名《绝世名言》)就是这个历史发展潮流中的两颗璀璨之星。

The development of China’s classical literature,both in style and ideological implication,is a process of continuously inheritance.Since the late Ming and early Qing period,drama has entered in to literature research domain.Li Yu’s dramas,inheriting from Yuan and Ming plays and connecting the novel play in Qing,contained the artistic features of both drama and novels.He concluded,in his“Sketches of Idle Pleasure”,a set of writing theories which have great influence on the later writers.His two plays,“A Silent Play”and“the 12^th Floor”are two stars in history.