A Study On The Narration Of The Sixty Kinds Of Opera Of Historical Dramas

The Sixty Kinds of Opera is an anthology of operas compiled and engraved by Mao Jin in the Ming Dynasty.There are six sets of sixty legends,covering a very rich content,including twenty-two historical dramas,with a large volume and less overall research.The research of this paper is carried out from the following four aspects:The first chapter divides the themes of historical dramas into loyalty and adultery struggle type,military struggle type,national struggle type,love and marriage type,ethics and morality type,hero legend type and personal biography type.The struggle type historical drama is dominated by events and relies on the background of the situation of the imperial court,military war and the rise and fall of the country.Highlight the fierce and lively narrative scene through contradictions and conflicts,take loyalty and evil,good and evil as the core of the camp,praise loyal officials and righteous men,and promote the concept of justice and victory.The rational historical drama takes emotion and ethics as the clue,praises the beautiful love,advocates the free pursuit of love,affirms the independence of personality,advocates ethics,and takes emotion and reason as the central point of the whole drama.Biographical historical drama takes people as the fulcrum,constructs the frustrated world of literati through people’s time and space transformation,and pours its own base with the wine cup of historical literati.The second chapter analyzes the narrative structure and its function.The linear narrative structure is a typical structure of legendary narrative.According to the number of clues,it is divided into three structures: single line structure,double line structure and multi line intersection.The linear structure can correspond the behaviors of different spaces one by one at the same time node,which enhances the interest of the plot.The application of double line and multi line structure greatly expands the narrative space,can cover more content and comprehensively describe the complex social life.It is more flexible in the development of contradictions and conflicts.The scene conversion of intertwined different spaces at the same time can adjust the rhythm of narration,play the role of hot and cold adjustment,and cross narrate the grand struggle scene with the delicate Acacia of relatives.The third chapter analyzes the narrative mode of historical drama,which has a certain mode at the beginning and end.There is a pattern in the content of "family" and "great reunion".It summarizes that there are two ways to present the supernatural plot: dream and reality,and the types are prediction type,problem-solving type and warning type.Supernatural plot can play the role of compact plot,fable and regulating atmosphere.Fourth,the comparison of historical dramas with the same theme.After combing,the selection of the main characters and main events of the three historical dramas overlap.There are differences in the proportion of the same event described in the three historical dramas.By analyzing the differences in the proportion,this paper discusses the ideological connotation of the author’s plot.Secondly,the same character also presents different images in different historical dramas.The spiritual core of the positive characters is unchanged,while the negative characters pile up the character of their villains according to the needs of the plot.