Comparative Studies Of Li Yu And Youdong Drama Theory And Practice

Late Ming and early Qing Dynasty was a period of social unrest.It brought a heavy blow to flourishing economy of Jiangnan region since Late Ming Dynasty, To the Ming and Qing Dynasty, The Qing troops have a bloody massacre in Jiangnan, and subsequently the imperial court give literator in high-pressure policy institute, the Chinese literator of this period had a tragic effect that the legend and drama of this period contains a lot of Sorrow of the country is defeated and the home lost, boast the pain of interpersonal frustration. Representative of play writters like You Tong, Hong Sheng, Kong Shangren so many of their plays in the rise and fall conceal their sense of home. But early Qing dynasty dramatic world is not blindly "sing sadness to the old "put all of the Qing dynasty, with more smoothly, and after social situation in the QingZhengQuan gradual consolidation, economy and culture recover faster, and the influence of traditional dramas in the late Ming dynasty, the drama activities is based on the family theatre with literator and players also got continues and recovery, Li Yu is good at writing comedy which brought a lot of laughter to this period.Li Yu and You Tong are not just dramatists, but also distinguished writer. Li Yu is good at writing novel, and You Tong is making a high achievement in poetry. Because they are engaged in the writing of drama is different, the former is the influence of novel prose and the latter is influence of poetry, so it formed different drama view which performance in their drama theory and the penetration of the drama in their practice. Li Yu describes his theory of theatrical creation mainly concentrated in "ci qu department" and "yan xi department" of the book named "xian qing ou ji " You Tong, most people will think of his creation of drama, but about his drama of drama creation theory are rarely mentioned. In fact, although You Tong is not formed a complete and systematic theory of drama, but his drama theories also has a system, and owns his unique insights. His drama theories points, mainly reflects in this book uxi tang wen ji" which contains "yi chou zhen feng order","yi sheng ci hua order","wu yu sheng shi order","ming ci xuan sheng order" etc. It mainly for friends to write a prodromes or author’s preface about their drama, from that we can know about You Tong’s feeling of and view on drama, It can be his drama articles.In the drama creation practice aspects, Li Yu’s romance "li weng shi zhong qu" is a typical stage plays, You Tong’s zaju contains "du li sao","diao pi pa","tao hua yuan","hei bai wei" and "qing ping diao" they are showing more the tendency of desk, their play has a lot of differences on theme, structure, qu ci and plot of drama.This paper is based on the late Ming and early Qing dynasty dramatic world appears to two different pursuit, for example, compared Li Yu with You Tong’s difference on drama view and practice. This article has5chapters, the first part is mainly introduced drama stage and drama desk’s different characteristics, and the historical background of the formation and development about drama in late Ming and early Qing Dynasty; The second part is investigated the different life experiences between Li Yu and You Tong, drama activities communication and work among each other to comment on the drama, described two exchanges in the creation drama. Li Yu has invited You Tong, Yu Huai, Song Danxian twice to appreciate drama performances, and make a proofread for You Tong’s legend "jun tianyue", Yu Tong also make a order for Li Yu’s "xian qing ou ji"; The third part is from the creation drama’s novelty, Bin Bai, aesthetic taste, narrative and lyricism etc, compared Li Yu with You Tong on their drama view; The fourth part is introduced that the comparison of drama practice is drama theme, structure, qu ci and plot, detailed their different writing styles and creation tendency; The fifth part is that described Li Yu and You Tong’s different status of theater history at that time, and their drama theory produced Different effects to future generations of drama.From Li Yu and You Tong’s comparison on dramatic theory and theatrical practice, we can not only recognize and Li Yu and You Tong’s works, but also know the specific understanding of the unique social and political atmosphere of the Qing Dynasty, cultural background and other factors on cultured thinking, creative The impact of understanding the situation of Qing literator’s social activities, the face of the Scholars group, literary and aesthetic characteristics are indispensable fashion so typical. By this comparison on drama theory and practice, you can also understand the Early Plays on the desk with the Scholarly play main stream of the reasons for the study of the legend after the mid-Qing Dynasty, Dynasty growing decline, the reasons for local drama bloom has important significance.