讀者召喚、閱讀差異與文本對話─三婦評點《牡丹亭》 = The Reader

Women Readers in the Ming and Qing Dynasties had a main text for drama reading and commentaries, which was The Peony Pavilion. Among all versions, Wu Wushan's Three Wives Collaborative Commentary Version of The Peony Pavilion attracted most attention. Through reading and criticizing, these three women readers conducted dialogues via words and built a textual relationship. This thesis would like to discuss how the three women readers established a reading-inviting structure during the process of reviewing and criticizing the dramatic context. Due to different individualities, commentary positions and reading interests on the part of the three readers, their commentaries were also different. Through reading aloud in words, women in different time and space established a multiplex interaction of criticism and interpretation which thus fulfilled ”the contextual dialogue” beyond the limitation of life.The discussing process spread out a common perspective pertaining to women's reading in Chinese opera. Meanwhile, the uniqueness and difference of each woman reader could also be understood in these writing sequences.