Abstract
The setting of the recitative protagonist is the core of Sanqu's narrative in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, who is a firstperson narrator undertaking responsibility for chanting the progression of story with his vision and position. Similarly, the leading singer (Zhengmo or Zhengdan) of Zaju is also a first-person protagonist who undertakes responsibility for chanting the whole librettos of a play-text, so he should be a recitative protagonist of librettos of Zaju. With a comparison of the librettos of Zaju's text attribute and the play-text forms with those of narrative Sanqu, we find that the play-texts of early Zaju have the same text form as the joint-structure narrative Sanqu, which is an inheritance from the written Zajuci that appeared in the Song Dynasty.
First Page
63
Last Page
75
Recommended Citation
Xu, Dajun. 2017. "The Play-text Forms of Early Zaju and Narrative Sanqu in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (5): pp.63-75. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss5/15
