“汤沈之争”及由此衍生的“吴江派”与“临川派”之争,是晚明戏曲史研究中的一个热门话题。自20世纪30年代以来,以此为题的争论此起彼伏,一直未曾停歇。20世纪80年代初,周育德的《也谈戏曲史上的“汤沈之争”》和叶长海的《沈璟曲学辩争录》在辨析有关史料的基础上,对“汤沈之争”提出质疑,认为所谓的“汤沈之争”和“临川派与吴江派之争”实际上是不存在的。 The struggle between the Tang and the Tang and the resulting disputes between the Wujiang School and the Linchuan School are a hot topic in the study of drama history in the late Ming Dynasty. The controversies on this issue have come one after another since the 1930s and have not stopped. In the early 1980s, Zhou Yude also talked about the struggle between Tang and Shen in the history of operas and Ye Changhai’s debate on the debate between Qujing and Qujing in the analysis of historical data, “Put forward the questioning that the so-called” struggle between the struggle “and” Lin Chuan school and Wujiang faction “actually” does not exist. "