具智骨者必有深情——“临川四梦”对唐传奇改编之文化考察

汤显祖是具有强烈时代责任感的戏曲作家，根据唐人小说改编而成的“四梦”不是对前人题材的机械沿袭，而是推陈出新，汇入了极具特色的创造，与小说相比已经有了很大的不同。他利用改编这种方式，在戏曲中融入自己的生活体验和感受，充分表达了他的创作思想和和审美理想，“四梦”所包容的内涵是唐代小说远不能望其项背的。

A Wise Man Must Have Deep Affection

In his masterpiece Four Dreams adapted from novels of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xianzu is not mechanically following the predecessors in styles, but has brought the new out of the old by his creation of defining characteristics. In such a sense, these operas are of great difference from his predecessors' works. Tang Xianzu is an opera writer who has a strong sense of great responsibility for his times. With the help of adaptation, he has merged into his operas all his experiences and sensations of all his life, which has given complete expression to his thoughts for writing and his ideal for aesthetics. In brief, the connotations of Four Dreams are much richer than that of the novels of the Tang Dynasty.