如果剧院的作用就是为了让演员把剧本台词照念一通,那么剧院根本就不需要存在了,因为从舞台上把剧本大声地读出来,这跟读者自己读小说并没有什么两样。但剧院是有的,它存在着,并且为人们所喜爱。剧作家就是要把自己的剧本交给剧院「去表演」的(果戈理的说法)。剧作家是写出来的台词的作者。演员是说出来的台词的作者。演员是角色的语调的作者。这并不是说,角色的语调在剧作家那里是不存在的。剧作家在角色台词中 If the role of the theater is to allow the actor to remember the lines of the script, the theater does not need to exist at all, because reading the script aloud from the stage is no different from the reader reading the novel himself. But the theater is there, it exists, and is loved by people. Playwright is to put their own script to the theater “to perform” (Gogol’s argument). The dramatist is the author of the lines written. The actor is the author of the line that came out. The actor is the author of the character’s tone. This is not to say that the tone of the character does not exist in the playwright. Playwright in the role lines