The Rise and Fall of Wen Ming Play with Special Reference to the Case in Shanghai / 中國「文明戲」興衰之研究--以上海為例

碩士 / 中國文化大學 / 戲劇研究所 / 93 / WenMing play is an initial drama, and it is also called WenMing New play or New play. Shanghai is the birthplace of Chinese Drama, and WenMing play was developed in Shanghai, so this thesis focuses on Shanghai area。
WenMing play is based on students’ performances, and influenced by Japanese XinPai play. It also reflects many specialties of traditional Chinese drama, and learns from western realism drama. From the first performance by ChunLiu troupe in Japan in 1907 to WuSi movement, WenMing play experienced much prosperity and decline, and it took about ten years to turn to initial drama. The fresh art form of WenMing play rapidly reflected reality of life, and its purpose “society education”﹘ developing people’s wisdom and improving society ﹘ not only satisfied its audiences but also fitted with the age, WenMing play has big contribution to improvement of society and foundation of drama.
This thesis introduces most important three branches of WenMing play: ChunLiu troupe and ChunLiu theatre, ChunYang troupe and JinHua troupe, XinMing troupe and MinMing troupe. According to rise and decline of these three branches in Shanghai, we can clarify the art form of WenMing play, also establish its position firmly in Chinese drama history, and the thesis finally talks about its contribution and effect for modern drama.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/093PCCU0510003
Date January 2004
CreatorsWuHongmei, 吳紅梅
Contributors牛川海
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format298

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