Research On Yuan Drama’s Scenario Space And Presentation

The most researchers studied on Yuan Drama, which is one peak of dramaticliterature in the history, from two main perspectives "literature" and "performance". Inview of performing, although having made fruitful achievements of researching YuanDrama around its spaces, their research on Yuan Drama scenario spaces is neitherprofound nor systematic. Therefore the author explored the proposition of YuanDrama’s unique scenario spaces by combining it with its literariness angle of viewand based on Yuan Drama works.The paper expounded viewpoint by two sections. The first one summarized themain scenario spaces of Yuan Drama based on detailed analysis on its works fromliterature, and the second one explored scenario spaces presentation from actperformance.In the first section, the paper analyzed scenario spaces of Yuan Drama from theform and content perspective. From the perspective of form, scenario spaces of YuanDrama happened in a single space, double spaces and so on which is concluded basedon the analysis of one section or all the whole sections. From the perspective ofcontent, backyard, inn, temples, brothels and governor house were the five places forscenario spaces, which was chose frequently by playwrights. Combining the currentpolitical, economic, cultural and social background of Yuan dynasty, the authorsummarized the scenario spaces by analyzing related works, which were listed astable, and concluded scenario spaces patterns and their characteristics the currentworks used by studying the development process of literature of Yuan andplaywrights’ writing intention.In the second section, the author tried to explore presentation modes of thescenario spaces of Yuan Drama that were summarized in first section. The Yuandrama is a kind of performance art, and to use scenario space is a pioneering work atthat time because the stage conditions are limit. Therefore the paper focused ondiscussing the different scenario spaces of Yuan Drama by analyzing all the characteractors’ appear on the scene and there performance and there stages.In a conclusion, the scenario spaces of Yuan Drama and their presentation modes,which have an essential influence on the later novels and dramas, were summarizedsystematically in this paper by exploring from the perspective of form and contentgradually.