陈烺的历史剧,多依据史实创作,具有基本的历史真实性。他的历史剧对史实的改编与创新,主要表现在两个方面:一是敷演史实,注重反映社会现实,特别是描写朝廷腐败,嘲讽和暴露封建统治者的昏聩腐朽及奸佞暴虐,表现出作者强烈的现实关怀。它增加了作品表现社会的力度及思想的深刻性,反映出作者身处末世,期盼理想人物拯救时弊、挽狂澜于既倒的心愿;二是表彰忠君爱国的志士仁人,强化人物品行与节操的描写。其戏曲效果在于通过情节和形象刻画,彰显人物积极优秀的道德情操,引导人们感受美好,认识崇高,净化道德,升华精神境界;同时,也反映了作者的道德理想。陈烺的历史剧,依据剧情内容与人物刻画的需要构建体制,自由灵活,长短适度,使作品获得了较大的艺术表现力,反映了晚清戏曲创作艺术的个性化与成熟。
Chen Lang's historical dramas are based on historical facts with historical authenticity.His adaptation and inno-vation of historical facts mainly manifested in two aspects:one is to pay attention to reflection of social reality especially a-bout government corruption,sarcasm,the feudal rulers'corruption,which reflected the author's realistic care,increased the works'social-expressed dynamics and his profundity of thought,and reflected the author's hope of looking forward to the ideal characters to save malpractices in his last days.The other is to honor the persons loyal to lofty ideals of patriot-ism or strengthen the characters of virtue and moral integrity.The opera effect lies in revealing characters'positive and good moral sentiment,reflecting their own moral ideal,and guiding people to feel good,to purify the moral,sublimation mental state through the plot and image characterization.Chen Lang's historical plays,according to the story contents and characters to build system,free and flexible,moderate,made his historical plays acquire a larger artistic expression,re-flecting the personalized art creation and mature in late Qing dynasty.