A Study of Historical and Cultural Interrelations between Victorian Fiction and Popular Theatre

该研究通过阐明维多利亚时代小说和通俗戏剧之间深刻的动态相关性，明确了这两种流派处于十七世纪至十九世纪文化史发展的顶峰。维多利亚时期的大众戏剧起源于英国文艺复兴时期的道德剧和市民剧。16世纪中期以来商业资本主义的迅速兴起，带来了城市商人及其文学的兴起，并最终形成了英国小说。

The study has made it clear that Victorian fiction and the popular theatre were at the culmination of the development of cultural history from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century by elucidating the profoundly dynamic correlations between the two genres. The origins of the Victorian popular theatre have been found to be in the morality plays and citizen drama of the English Renaissance. The rapid rise of commercial capitalism since the mid-sixteenth century has brought about the rise of the city merchants and their literature which finally crystallized as the English novel.