A Study On The Hongguang Shen Plays

Hongguang Shen (1948-), Hubei female playwright. She is one of the few female writers in the world of the theater emerged in the new era, and her drama writing experience has been30years since eighties of last century, and her dramatic works sub-themes can be divided into two types. First there are those about little people. The second kind of work is a Revolutionary War theme. Those were created after the little people type, until now.In the early creation of the little people series, She created vivid and delicate depiction of the daily life of ordinary people, good at observatige human feelings, relationships.This is her specialty, also her major achievements. However, there is a missing of the sense of an era and humanity. There are a serious discordance between the problems and the solutions in her works. She relies on moral promotion and kind-heart to solve social problems such as housing, medical care. Obviously, this approach is not only useless in the real solution of practical problems, it is easily erased the social reality of the unreasonable and even cruel, so that works ultimately change paired reality warmth whitewash, and slip into the official "harmony" and "Striving for mainstream ethics discourse areas.After1999, Shen’s creation shifts to the Revolutionary War theme. There are two main reasons for the occurrence of such shift:First, the above problems exposed in the little people theme writing became more and more obvious, finally keep the writer from going on. The second reason is the change of Shen’s identity from a writer to an official. Therefore her attitude of the mainstream consciousness becomes complete submission, instead of being free variable as before. Overall the artistic level of such works as preliminary.As for the value standpoint held by Hongguang Shen’s plays, past comments thought she created common human nature from the view of the ordinary person. However, the author’s detailed analysis of all the plays Hongguang Shen finds that civilian life description can only be seen as the content of the surface of her. The Writer ideologically showing a tendency to over-reliance on official thinking, this is particularly evident in her later works. Therefore, I believe that the value of position is not to civilians in the works of Hongguang Shen, but official. Shen’s works in real terms advertise in mainstream ethics, in essence, is the main theme.I believe that Shen an excellent playwright on the subject of mortal mundane affairs. Well-known playwrights on such a small theme are rare in contemporary or modern theater areas. Shen is one of the best. Her Works did a great job in restoring ordinary life stream in real delicate way, gave a rich comprehensive grasp of common people’s real emotion, mind. These are the outstanding artistic value of her work in the world of the theater lies.However, Shen Avision fame in the early eighties of last century was the theater. Ideological emancipation,"the return period of the May Fourth Enlightenment thought, but she failed to keep up the pace of the era of advanced thought, thinking the depths are still many17years legacy of the period of official ideology. In addition, she was always writing experience within the system itself also failed to form an intellectual elite consciousness style that she good at writing of universal, have a certain amount of artistic creativity, but the lack of existing social system the field of culture, history, and many irrational aspects of reflection and critical awareness and capacity, and thus unable to write with profound human, social, and historical and cultural significance of the breadth and depth of work, the ideological limitations of her overall creative achievements.