Non-scenario Factors: the Cognitive Focus and Construction of the Subject of Zhou Yibai's Traditional Opera Writings

At the beginning of the 20th century,Zhou Yibai is the first opera expert who frequently uses and actively promotes the dramadiscourses,which differentiates him from other opera experts. Zhou Yibai frequently uses and actively promotes the dramarather than operain that he holds that only the name of dramacan accurately express the nature of the stage performance art style unique to China,while the traditional operaonly focuses on the scenaria,less involves the stage performance art. He inspects,reviews and interpretats the opera always based on the factors like theatre,theatre company,actors,characters, performance and operatic tunes. He takes these factors as cognitive focus and construction of the subject in his opera writings unlike the vast majority of opera experts who take the script as the key without considering other factors except the script. The appearance of Zhou Yibai brings different and new changes to opera study which has been long-term constrained by opera literature research.