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Research On Xun Huisheng’s Peking Opera Of The Dream Of Red Mansions

Posted on:2014-01-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H S XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330425982583Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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The story of The Dream of Red Mansions is an inexhaustible source on the operastage. Qing Dynasty opera "Red Mansions " embryonic stage, the works of this periodliterati desk for often jumbled, the image of the thin, though unable to successfullyparaded, still provide experience for the future creation. In the period of Republic, thePeking Opera of The Dream of Red Mansions paraded across a large number of the stage,many Peking Opera stars involved, because of the story theme diverse and ideologicaltheme clearly, they get great success. Xun Huisheng as the one of the four most famous"female roles" is more representative figures.Xun Huisheng loves in "The Dream of Red Mansions", he has staged the "HongLou Er You"," Qing Wen "and other four" Red Mansions "dramas, were born in"Southern Ou North Mei", but his work has achieved the success of thetranscendent,they still active in the stage. Mr. Xun’s Peking Opera of The Dream of RedMansions reflects strong conflicts, not only help to promote the development of the plot,but also conducive to the deepening of shaping the character and theme; Mr. Xun alsoemphasis greatly on the effect of the stage, uses plain language closer to the distance ofthe performers and the audience, full of emotion and resonate with the audience, therebyobtaining the desired effect; Mr. Xun’s creation is not a novelty, he tried to avoid the hotspots of The Dream of Red Mansions story character, selected the foil role in the originalto be adapted,to shape the complete characters, creating new The Dream of RedMansions story.The text of Mr. Xun’s Peking Opera of The Dream of Red Mansions has aqualitative difference in the choice of subject matter,shaping the character, narrativestructure and narrative point of view, language and form. First, the novel’s plot the upsand downs, drama select contradictions typical events; the characters in the novel aremulti-faceted, the drama must prominent figures of the typical character. Secondly,"TheDream of Red Mansions" has a huge network structure, Peking Opera of The Dream ofRed Mansions need to use a clear linear structure to show the story to the audience; CaoXueqin uses the third-person narrative to show the story, but the performers need to usethe fisrt person on stage; the novel’s diversified perspective can show the story to the reader with multi-angle ways, the opera dual perspective is the best effect for the stages.Again, the language of the novel is gorgeous and elegant and creative freedom,the dramain order to cater to the audience’s understanding, the libretto and language not only bepopularized, but also limited strictly to opera stylized restrictions. In addition, there is astable text after the novel became a book, but the formation of the opera script is aprocess of continuous improvement in performances.Mr.Xun’s disciples make the Mr.Xun’s Peking Opera of The Dream of RedMansions have a good heritage, his second-generation disciple Liu Changyu inherited"Hong Lou Er You", Tong Zhiling also adapted the paly and form her own representativeworks, make the Xun School ’s Peking Opera of The Dream of Red Mansions beflourished.
Keywords/Search Tags:Peking Opera, Xun Huisheng, Peking Opera of The Dream of RedMansions, The Dream of Red Mansions
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