凌濛初戏曲小说中的侠义作品考释

Investigating and Interpreting the Chivalric Works by Ling Mengchu

本文主要考述了现存的凌氵蒙初戏曲小说中侠义作品的渊源。凌氵蒙初在创作或改编戏曲小说中侠义题材的作品时,十分重视吸取宋明笔记小说乃至民间传说中的素材,尤其重视《剑侠传》、《亘史》这两部著作。凌氵蒙初创作或改编了一些侠义题材的小说和戏曲,并得到了行家们的好评,这在戏曲中表现得尤为突出。

This paper mainly investigates the origin of the chivalric works among the extant opera novels by Ling Mengchu. In creating or adapting opera novels bearing chivalric types of literature, he paid much attention to absorbing materials from literary sketches and folk legends in the Song and Ming Dynasties, especially from the two works of Legends of Swordsman and History of Eternity. His creation and adaptation receive favorable comments from experts, which is quite prominent in opera novels.