The history of folk drama in Taiwan is a huge project still waiting to be tackled seriously. This is even more so in the case of Taiwanese folk opera, where neither the main traditions nor the minor offshoots have been properly defined and traced in detail.
戲劇史在台灣本來就是一件等待整理的大工程，其中的歌仔戲史更是如此，不僅大的脈絡不夠完整，枝節片斷也語焉不詳。