Research on Chinese Ancient Drama Structure

The ancient Chinese dramas have a great variety. However, in the literary form, all types of dramas are showed by scene-arranging, various roles and narrating patterns. The dot-line pattern structure is in general use, including single-line pattern, double-line pattern and variation pattern, etc. The structure approaches which are used in the dramas have many ones, such as running through from beginning to end, context anaphor, one clew throughout the dramas, single narrating, etc. The ancient drama critic gradually attached importance to the drama structures, which made the drama structures in the incessant change and development, so that the drama creation shows prosperity. Understanding the drama structure contributes for us to appreciating the unique artistic charm of ancient drama in depth.