Performance of the Shakespearean Classic by Chinese Operas: From Shakespeare's Tragedy Macbeth to Anhui Opera Jing Hun Ji

Abstract

Abstract: Anhui Opera Jing Hun Ji, a recently successful adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, reflects fictionality, freehand (enjoyment), stylized singing, reading, doing and playing among Chinese conventional operas. Jing Hun Ji completely explores and externalizes the psychology of characters, and keeps the original tragic spirit while it adopts exaggerated and transformed lyric narrative in Anhui Opera to show the inner torment of characters, and reflective techniques specially in Anhui Opera to externalize the spiritual conflicts of characters. Taking various narrative media as the base, and Anhui Opera's reflection as the noumenon, it also poetically presents the criticism about the evil human nature from the perspective of ethics and aesthetics. Hence the creation and performance of the Anhui Opera Jing Hun Ji is a great adaptation of the Shakespearean play and great achievement for the Chinese Shakespeare studies.

Key words: Shakespeare, Anhui Opera Jing Hun Ji, aesthetic quality

Li Weimin. Performance of the Shakespearean Classic by Chinese Operas: From Shakespeare's Tragedy Macbeth to Anhui Opera Jing Hun Ji[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(4): 153-160.

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