缪斯精神的传承——论《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的创作与改编

Inheritance of Artistic Creativity: The Creation and Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

在当今的舞台和银幕上,改编自莎剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》的作品层出不穷。该剧也是莎士比亚利用当时的流行素材改编而成的杰作。它具有持久生命力的原因可以从以下三方面剖析:探究罗密欧与朱丽叶这个故事的衍变以及莎士比亚在该剧上的创新,梳理近一个世纪的莎剧改编并分析几部代表作品体现的时代性和创造性,从经典与流行的辩证存在角度探讨莎剧改编中的创新问题。当代莎剧改编应发扬莎士比亚在创作时秉持的缪斯精神,将莎剧置于不断创新的改编过程中,在充分体验莎翁作品的创造性、多元性、兼容性和永恒性的同时,展示当下时代的特点以及人们对时代的理解和认识。

There are many plays and films adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that is also Shakespeare’s successful creative adaptation from materials popular at his time. The reasons for the enduring vitality of Shakespeare’s plays could be found through probing into the evolution of the story of Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare’s creative adaptation, reviewing the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet in the past century, analyzing the modernity and creativity embodied in several representative works, and discussing the importance of innovation in the adaptation of Shakespeare’s plays from the perspective of the dialectical existence of classic and popular works. Contemporary artists should follow Shakespeare’s way of creative adaptation, and put Shakespeare’s plays in the process of continuous innovation, so as to show the characteristics of the current era and their understanding of them while appreciating creativity, diversity, compatibility and eternity of Shakespeare’s works.