晚明时期,随着消费社会的形成,市民阶层文化休闲、文化消费的欲求越来越强烈。一大批书坊主敏锐地嗅到了市民阶层的需求,在商业利益驱动下,他们开始调整图书的产品结构,由原来以出版经史和文集为主转向以戏曲和通俗小说为主,由此形成了一个包括组稿、创作、出版、发行在内的完整的通俗文化出版的产业链条。在此背景下,以戏曲和小说为主的通俗文学大量出版,促成了大众文学的回归。一晚明戏曲的出版明代戏曲的出版以嘉靖、隆庆为界,可分为前后两个时期:前期书坊从事戏曲刊刻者寥若 In the late Ming Dynasty, with the formation of a consumer society, the desire of citizens for cultural leisure and cultural consumption has become increasingly strong. A large number of bookmasters keenly sensed the needs of the public class. Driven by their commercial interests, they began to readjust the product mix of the books, mainly from the publication of history and anthologies to the mainstream of drama and popular novels, A complete set of popular culture including the draft, creation, publishing, distribution industry chain. Against this background, the mass publication of popular literature mainly composed of drama and novels contributed to the return of popular literature. The publication of a late Ming drama The operas of the Ming Dynasty, published by Jiajing and Longqing, can be divided into two periods: