The Research Of LiYu's Dramatic Theory

Li Yu is the famous dramatist, dramatic theorist and novelist in early Qing Dynasty. He has large achievement in the drama and the novel creation, his dramatic theory occupied a great importance position in Chinese dramatic theory history by its stage practicality, systematization, openness and so on, known as the master of Chinese classical dramatic theory. This paper embarking from the social history culture angle, discusses the historical inevitability which the Li Yu's dramatic thoughts'produces, and from the uniform angle which his dramatic theory and his dramas explain the value which Li Yu's dramas. This paper divides into three parts, the primary coverage is as follows:The first part is"the Li Yu's dramatic thoughts'formation". The time which Li Yu locates is politics turbulence, economy transform, and thought liberate. This time just when Ming and Qing Dynasties'alternately, politic is unstable, the contradictory in the literati's thought is layer on layer. In Ming Dynasty heart study influence, the literati's innovative ideology and the unique individuality obtained the bright performance turning point; Li Yu meets the era in time, in the academic atmosphere transforms under the influence, has manifested the bright historical characteristics.The second part is"Li Yu's dramatic theory". Li Yu's dramatic theory may divide into two aspects, the writer theory and the direction theory . The writer theory concentrates in"structure first","literary elegance second","spoken parts in Chinese drama fourth","comedics fifth"in"the dramatic theory department", involves the aspects which the dramatic structure, characterization, language questions and so on; The direction theory is mainly in"the exercise department"and fewer in"the acoustic capacitance department", involve the actor's choice, raise and performance method questions and so on, is the quite complete direction theory.The third part is"the relations which Li Yu's dramatic theory with his dramas". Li Yu's dramas does the overall characteristic is the popularity and comedics, the dominant characters in structure are"sets up the control central","the dense needlework","to escape the pattern", these are consistent with Li Yu's dramatic theory; Li Yu's dramatic theory think that dramas must to be beneficial to the common people, hence his dramas is not only the popularity Leisure goods, but also reflected the serious social contents from the different side the social reality.