On Xu Xiaozhong's Dramatic Art

Since the new era,there have been few achievements in the study of Xu Xiaozhong’s drama.At the same time,the only outstanding research achievements in the drama of Xu Xiaozhong are mostly concentrated on the analysis of its creative phenomena and texts.While ignoring the deep exploration and excavation of the essence of his drama thought and the connotation of drama humanology,the main purpose of this paper is to give birth to the purport.This paper holds that the human nature of drama is the vitality of drama.Since the May 4th Enlightenment,drama has discovered human beings.Human mission has become a conscious creative pursuit of dramatists.Although the consciousness of "human" in drama was gradually ignored and even disappeared for a long period of time in the 20th century,it finally came to life in the new era The drama of the new era not only goes further than the drama of 17 years in depth and breadth,but also has a more diversified external form of drama.Xu Xiaozhong’s drama is the epitome and the representative of many dramas.Therefore,based on the drama creation in the new period,this paper makes a tentative summary of the drama creation in the new period from two aspects:the humanistic connotation and the formal innovation of the drama creation.By contrasting with the present situation of the atrophic spirit of contemporary drama,this paper puts forward a direction of exploration for the healthy development of contemporary drama.The first chapter gives a general overview of Xu Xiaozhong’s dramatic career.The second chapter analyzes Xu Xiaozhong’s multi-dimensional examination of complexity and diversity of human nature from the angle of the connotation of human science.The third chapter,from the angle of stage presentation,expounds the role of the stage vocabulary used by Xu Xiaozhong in revealing the theme of human studies.The fourth chapter through vertical combing and horizontal comparison,taking Xu Xiaozhong’s drama exploration as a direction of the development of contemporary drama,put forward a kind of assumption and suggestion to the contemporary drama’s humanology remolding.