"peach Blossom Fan," The History Of Theater Personality Theory

For "peach blossom fan "as the formulation of the historical play, the academic community has no doubtful point. But exactly the traditional common understanding hinders the deep probe on the individual character of "peach blossom fan" instead.This paper utilizes methods of comparison and study, knowing people according to his generation, from such four aspects as "peach blossom fan" being history documentary drama, modern historical play, historical tragedy and its deep historical consciousness, strives to make even more understanding in "peach blossom fan" by systematic and comprehensive research on the individual characters in " peach blossom fan" and its original cause of formation .Chapter one carrys on words comb, in order to find out and discuss the logic starting points of question to historical play concept at first.Then by comparing with representative historical plays of Yuan Ming Qing, find out the first individual character of "peach blossom fan" as the documentary drama of history.Next concrete on such four respects as characterization, section arrangement,theme and clue,final result then draw conclusion: "peach blossom fan" is the most ingenious summit among the historical plays.Chapter two researches on the second individual character of "peach blossom fan"as the modern historical play . " peach blossom fan" is close to "chirping of phoenix",a kind of political current events dramas ,from the angle of drawing materials and difficulty of creation .This is very different from the former generation history dramas . But again because whatit writes is really in the past, it still belongs to the category of historical play. For this , we define it as a kind of new-type history drama between the former generation history drama and the political current events drama. Then through the comparisons with the former generation history drama ,find out its unique aspect.Chapter three,in view of having no systematic tragedy theory in ancient china,according to western tragedy theory, define the third of individual character of " peach blossom fan" as historical tragedy.And next by comparing with other tragedy works in tragedy contains and the final result,orientates "peach blossom fan" as the highest tragedy works among the historical plays.Chapter four aims at probing into the historical consciousness origin of " peach blossom fan" and the final cause of formation.Deep and serious historical tradition, the custom of upholding history in literatus and the textual research trends of educatinal circles, combining together with Kong Shang Ren ,who has the deep confucianist psychology, at last selecting the drama literature as the carrier,then the close combination of those brings out this masterpiece of historical play- "peach blossom fan" .