311121 xudajun@ 263. net 15ZDB074 14BZW066 Title The Play-text Forms of Early Zaju and Narrative Sanqu in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties Abstract The setting of the recitative protagonist is the core of Sanqu s narrative in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties who is a firstperson narrator undertaking responsibility for chanting the progression of story with his vision and position. Similarly the leading singer Zhengmo or Zhengdan of Zaju is also a first-person protagonist who undertakes responsibility for chanting the whole librettos of a play-text so he should be a recitative protagonist of librettos of Zaju. With a comparison of the librettos of Zaju s text attribute and the play-text forms with those of narrative Sanqu we find that the play-texts of early Zaju have the same text form as the joint-structure narrative Sanqu which is an inheritance from the written Zajuci that appeared in the Song Dynasty. Keywords narrative Sanqu librettos of Zaju recitative protagonist the lead singer play-text of early Zaju Author Xu Dajun Ph. D. is a professor in the School of Humanities at Hangzhou Normal University with research focus on classical Chinese drama and fiction. Address the School of Humanities Hangzhou Normal University Hangzhou 311121 China. Email xudajun@ 263. net Fund the National Social Science Fund for Major Project No. 15ZDB074 and the National Social Science Fund No. 14BZW066. 278 63

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