汤显祖的作品一直是赞誉与争议并存。在明代,汤显祖就亲身经历了一场争战,这就是历史上著名的“汤沈之争”。进入清代以后,在独特的政治、经济、社会、思想文化的作用下,围绕着汤显祖作品的评价之争,不仅没有停止,反而向更复杂、更多元的方向展开。一、雅俗之争中的汤显祖清初曲坛尚雅,清代诸多士子文人,借戏曲创作尽显学识才情,并以之作为评判戏曲艺术成就高低的标志。尚雅的戏曲家,会把戏曲当作一种案头把玩之物,比如尤侗。尤侗在《西堂乐府·自序》云:“然古调自 Tang Xianzu’s work has always been a combination of praise and controversy. In the Ming Dynasty, Tang Xianzu personally experienced a war, which is the history of the famous ”Tang Shen dispute.“ After entering the Qing Dynasty, under the influence of unique politics, economy, society and ideology and culture, the dispute surrounding the evaluation of Tang Xianzu’s works not only did not stop, but also started to be more complicated and diversified. First, the dispute between elegance and vulgar Tang Xianzu early Qing Dynasty music is still elegant, many scholar literati in the Qing Dynasty, by drama to make all aware of talent, and as a judge of the level of opera art achievement signs. Elegant opera house, the drama will be treated as a desk thing, such as you Dong. You Dong in the ”West Hall Yuefu order“ cloud: ”However, the ancient tune from