Research On Anonymous Historical Dramas Of Yuan Dynasty And Differences With Source Material

There are 13 anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty,accounting for almost a third of 45 anonymous dramas of Yuan Dynasty.These anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty are not only considerable,but also good-quality.The group of anonymous writers of Yuan Dramas was almost made up by subordinate officials ?common people? doctors? merchants and people in the office in charge of imperial music.They were close to the ordinary life of common people and composed a series of outstanding works which truly reflects the aesthetic interest of common people and social reality of Yuan Dynasty.The paper covers following contents:The first part of the paper reviews many documents and finds that two problems exist in the historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty,which are unequal density of researching and not macroscopic enough.These achievements focus on Yuan Dramas of famous writers more but anonymous works less,so there are still spaces for further researches.This paper regards anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty as independent and valuable objects of researching.The full text surrounds anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty and is made up by four parts.The second chapter analyses the identity of anonymous writers of dramas of Yuan Dynasty firstly,and then defines historical dramas,which should accord with two criteria.The first criterion is that leading roles should be people who truly existed in history and the second criterion is that the main plots?concrete historical background and historical spirits reflected by dramas are supposed to have evidence in documents.What' more,this chapter clarifies the numbers of anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty according to two criteria.The third chapter divides anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty into threeparts according to content,which are dramas of political struggles ? dramas of poor scholars' success and dramas of ethical cultivation.moreover,dramas of political struggles can be divide into dramas of military struggles and dramas of court struggles.The main plots of the dramas of military struggles tell stories of how leading roles who represent just military powers overcome obstacles and defeat strong rivals by his own magic abilities.The main plots of dramas of court struggles tell stories of intense confrontations and conflicts of different political forces in the court.dramas of poor scholars' success are divided into dramas of poor literary men' success and dramas of poor warriors' success.dramas of poor literary men' success prominently show the obstacles in the leading role' s road to chase fame and interest and the relatives or friends of leading roles in these dramas are not only opponents but also helpers,which have duality.dramas of poor warriors' success prominently show great skills of leading role,which elaborate and overstate the intensity of combat.Dramas of ethical cultivation extend the extent of ethical cultivation of the leading roles' characters to exhort people.The fourth chapter is the research on differences between anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty and source material,these differences cover three aspects,which are changes of roles' characters?changes in methods of artistic creation and alteration of pursuit of value.The fifth chapter analyse the causes of differences between dramas and source material.These causes can be divide into internal causes and external causes.internal causes are the changes in mentality of literary men in Yuan Dynasty and alteration of discourse powers caused by changes of the audience.External causes are the oppression in governance of different nations?growing thoughts of worshipping Han?the influences of Chinese traditional cultures backgrounds and differences caused by different narrative arts between anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty and source material.The paper combs the rough plots of anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty and clarifies main features of plots of this three kinds of anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty on the basis of classification.After that,the paper explains different backgrounds?ideas and arts of composition through analysing main differences betweenanonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty and source material and the causes which bring about these differences.The paper tries to clarify some basic problems about anonymous historical dramas of Yuan Dynasty and enrich the researches on dramas of Yuan Dynasty.