近来与古典戏曲研究界的同仁交流,大家都感觉到该领域的研究现在似乎遭遇到瓶颈。虽然目前这种情形在古代文学研究的其他分支以及整个人文学研究的诸多领域几乎普遍存在,但古典戏曲研究界的状况好像更为严峻。这首先体现在总体研究规模日渐萎缩。虽然随着大量新获博士和硕士学位者的加入,研究队伍规模仍然不小,但与整个古代文学研究队伍总体规模的扩张相比,古典戏曲研究力量所占比例显然降低。好些原有的研究基地后继乏人,有的甚至已基本销声匿迹,只有寥寥几家硕果 Recently, I have been communicating with colleagues in the classical drama research community. Everyone feels that there seems to be a bottleneck in the research in this field. Although the current situation is almost universal in other branches of ancient literary studies and in many areas of humanistic research, the situation in classical opera research seems to be more severe. This is reflected first in the shrinking of the overall research scale. Although the size of the research team is still not small with the addition of a large number of new PhDs and master’s degree holders, the proportion of the research power of classical Chinese drama is obviously lower than the expansion of the overall scale of the entire ancient literature research team. Some of the original research base after the lack of successors, and some have even disappeared, only a handful of fruit