The Circulation and Transformation of Current-event Drama between Taiwanese Ballad Booklets and Taiwanese Opera
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Wu, Yen-Lin
Abstract
Kua-a-hi(Taiwanese Opera) is a kind ofdrama, based on Kua-a(Taiwanese Ballad) and Kua-a-tsheh(Taiwanese Ballad Boolets). Kua-hi has close relation to Kua-a in narrative way and plots. This dissertation is in terms of current-event drama, focusing on the relatives between Kua-a-tseh and Kua-a-hi.
Current-event Drama means that folk performers and actors take current news and incidents as subjects to create plays. These subjects, which are sensational and well-known, include political events, murders, and social cases. The current-event drama can geographically divide into two sorts: “whathappened in Taiwan” and “whathappened not in Taiwan”. The former consists ofZhan-Dian’s Wife Accused of Her Farther, Tong-Zhou Vicious Mother, and Bamboo Viper Murder. The later consists ofZhou-Cheng Immigrates to Taiwan, An Abandoned Widow: Lin-Tou-Jie, and A Suicide for Love in Tainan Canal. This thesis analyzes the plots and narrating difference between Kua-a-tseh and Kua-a-hi. Furthermore, the thesis concludes the features and conventional plots of Current-event Drama between them.
As time goes by, past “current-events” transform into legends or stories nowadays. Current-event drama gradually loses its function of recording and reflecting the actual facts and becomes a category of plays.
At the end, the thesis accounts for the situation of playing current-event drama and why the playing frequencies decrease.
Subjects
時事劇
歌仔
歌仔冊
說唱
歌仔戲
民間戲劇
Type
thesis
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