本論文凡分五章，約八萬字． 研究動機及方法：以一個外籍生的立場來看，我覺得中國古典文學最具偶特色的是「 一代有一代之文學」．依此而言元代的代表文學就是雜劇．在現存一百六十多種元雜 劇作品中，以依據歷史故事而編成的戲劇特別多．研究元代歷史劇可說是窺知整個元 雜劇的基礎．另外，筆者也一向對歷史故事和戲曲方面存有高度的興趣．這是促使筆 者以此為題撰寫論文的動機． 本論文綜合整理至今為止的有關歷史劇個別作品的研究論文，並加入個人的見解．首 先筆者修正從前學者普遍偏重研究曲文、曲律的傾向，而著眼於歷史劇作品本身具有 的各種主題思想，同時又重視作品情節和歷史人物塑造的特色，茲略述各章內容大要 如下： 首章：先論述歷史劇的定義．本論文所謂的歷史劇則是專以正史為依據，舉凡劇中主 要人物和關目必須有史可稽，以達到「史有其人，人有其事」的條件．其次再論述已 分類好的歷史劇三十一篇之劇目及版本． 二章：本論文所選評的歷史劇共三十一本，本章將先做簡單的敘錄．在每一本作品的 敘錄之後，附帶其歷史故事情節之來源及人物事件與史實之異同，以便以後的討論． 三章：敘述歷史劇的主題思想．文學作品與時代環境關係密不可分，尤以戲曲文學為 然．元人所寫的歷史劇不僅是搬演古人的故事，而且往往是借古鑑今，充滿著憤慨之 情，諷諭之意，把身受蒙古人壓迫的一股憤恨，盡情流瀉．換言之，這些歷史劇並不 是簡單的再現歷史，而是概括了作者對現實生活的體驗和感受．本章主傲考察每本歷 史劇作品□直間接表現的各種主題思想． 四章：敘述歷史劇本身具有的完學技巧．分別從情節布局、人物塑造技巧、歷史劇特 有的辭采諸方面來探討．

It is now broadly accepted that Vaughan Williams's music betrays a more complex relation to national influences than has traditionally been assumed. It is argued in this thesis that despite the trends towards revisionism that have characterized recent work, Vaughan Williams's interest in and engagement with English folk materials and cultures remains only partially understood. Offering contextual interpretation of materials newly available in the field, my work takes as its point of departure the critical neglect surrounding Vaughan Williams's contradictory compositional debut, in which he denounced the value of folk song in English art music in an article published alongside his song 'Linden Lea', subtitled 'A Dorset Folk Song'. Reconstructing the under-documented years of the composer's early career, it is demonstrated that Vaughan Williams's subsequent 'conversion' and lifelong attachment to folk song emerged as part of a broader concern with the intelligible and participatory quality of song and its performance by the human voice. As such, it is argued that the ways in which this composer theorized an idea of 'song' illuminate a powerful perspective from which to re-consider the propositions of his project for a national music. Locating Vaughan Williams's writings within contemporaneous cultural ideas and practices surrounding 'song', 'voice', and 'Englishness', this work brings such contexts into dialogue with readings of various of the composer's works, composed both before and after the First World War. It is demonstrated in this way that the rehabilitation of Vaughan Williams's music and reputation profitably proceeds by reconstructing a complex dialogue between his writings; between various cultural ideas and practices of English music; between the reception of his works by contemporaneous critics; and crucially, by considering the propositions of his music as explored through analysis. Ultimately, this thesis contends that Vaughan Williams's music often betrays a complex and self-conscious performance of cultural ideas of national identity, negotiating an optimistic or otherwise ambivalent relationship to an English musical tradition that is constructed and referenced through a particular idea of song.