Research On Theme Evolve Of Civilization Drama

“The Civilization Drama” belongs in the early stage of modern Chinese spoken drama. Its time range spanned from the beginning of the twentieth century to the eve of the 4th New Culture Movement. For a variety of reasons,the Civilization Drama by fill turn decline, even been blended in with some poor quality old drama.The Civilization Drama differs from Chinese traditional opera from its nature, content and form point of view. It had profound practical significance by reflecting real life. Meanwhile, the Civilization Drama, in a manner, had broken through traditional dramatic form. It was a brand new development in art history of Chinese drama.The Civilization Drama made tremendous contributions to Chinese modern drama. It is very important to explore the theme of the Civilization Drama in the early stage of modern Chinese spoken drama in depth, as well as to accurately assess its true value and historical position.In this dissertation, to research on the theme of the Civilization Drama is the sticking point. Systematic research was done on three phases: formal evaluation of the theme, reasons of changing theme and their influences. The purpose is to observe a pattern of the occurrence and development of the popular literature from the perspective of its theme and content.The first part of the paper discusses the evaluation of the theme of the Civilization Drama, according to its founding, developing and declining periods. This part grasps the essence of certain forms of social thoughts during that society period, by summarizing themes of the Civilization Drama.On the other hand, this part profoundly rethinks the theme change preceded in Cultural Revolution era.The main concept of the second part of this paper is to explore theinternal and external cause of theme change of the Civilization Drama.According to the Objective analysis on the internal fusion and the multiple factors of catering to external needs, this part aims to face up to the primary cause of the whole developing process, from prosperity to decline phase, of the Civilization Drama.The third part of the paper focuses on the historical influences that theme change of the Civilization Drama brought, with regard to modern Chinese spoken drama, even to social culture. At the late stage, various forms of drama appear with some natures of the Civilization Drama. It is reasonable to believe that there is a kinship between the Civilization Drama and the later forms of drama.This paper introduces thesis change of the modern drama as a starting point, discusses all aspects of the performance, influential factors and impacts on later generations of the modern drama. The aim is to construct a cognitive perspective based on thesis change of the modern drama as the core theme.