A Study Of Shen Jing's Legend Creation

Shen Jing is a famous dramatist and dramatic theorist who has big influeces in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. But now when people study his dramatic theories they pay no attention to his legends, especially of his individual legend creation. In view of the fact, the task of the text is to study Shen Jing's legend creation, mainly beginning from theme and form.The introduction looks back the history and present dramatic study on Shen Jing .Chapter one deals his life, friends and his works. Shen Jing's life is divided into three periods: He was born from a government official family and early youth owned reputation of artistic talent; When he became adult, he went well on the official road; He didn't write legend until the age of 37 when he lost his job. From then on, he created lots of valuable legend creation. Chapter two states the background and style of the legend creation. The background starts from social environment, geographical environment and personal factors. And the style starts from Drawn, Subject and writing style.Chapter three analyses his legend creation, Shen Jing has 7 legends. There are 4 legends remained which are"The Story of Red Lotus","The Story of Couplet","The Story of Hero","The Story of Laughter".Chapter four analyses his artistic form. Shen Jing's legend creation has distinguished artistic technique, which is reflected in writing frame, language style and comedy style.The conclusion evaluates the position of his dramatic creation. Although his works have some disadvantages, he still is a distinguished dramatist in the field of drama.