早在两千多年前的古希腊,亚里士多德在《诗学》中就第一次提出了“穿插剧”这一崭新的名词概念,它与“复杂剧”、“苦难剧”、“性格剧”一起,被并称为当时四种独立的戏剧样式。亚氏还以当时的一些悲剧如《普罗米修斯》等为例证,指出,这种“穿插剧”的主要特点集中表现在它的结构艺术上,即是采取了一种“穿插式结构”(后人又有称为“插曲式结构”的)。亚氏还指出,这种“穿插式结构”,最适宜于表现复杂的情节和行动,而与之相反,“在简单的情节与行动中,以‘穿插式’为最劣”。亚里士多德在《诗学》中虽未对“穿插式结 As early as two thousand years ago in ancient Greece, Aristotle put forward the brand-new concept of “drama” for the first time in “Poetics”, which is related to “complex drama”, “misery drama” , “Drama” together, was also known as the four independent drama style. Yasuhiro also used some tragedies of the time such as “Prometheus” as an example, pointing out that the main features of this “drama of performativity” are concentrated in its structural art, that is, adopting a “interspersed structure” (Later generations have called “episode structure”). Arvind also pointed out that this “interspersed structure” is most suitable for the performance of complex plots and actions, on the contrary, “in simple plots and actions, the” interspersed “is the worst.” Although Aristotle did not deal with “interspersed knot” in “Poetics”