A Comparative Study of the Artistic Features of Chinese and Japanese Classical Dramas - Taking Kunqu The Palace of Eternal Life and Noh Yang Guifei as examples

摘要

Kunqu and Noh belong to oriental classical drama and possess the performance and characteristic feature, called "drama poem" and lyricism is their essential feature. As typical representative of classical drama in their country, Kunqu and Noh have different artistic characteristic involved in the arts intimately. So a comparative study on the similarities and differences between artistic features requires a necessary and meaningful research work. This paper tried to analyze the similarities and differences in terms of artistic feature by comparative literature theory and textual analysis method, and took the Kunqu "The Palace of Eternal Life" and Noh "Yang Guifei" as the center of the comparative research.