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Yao, Yi-Wei was famous playwright in Taiwan. Many researchers interested his plays. Yao Yi-Wei’s plays Sun, Fei-Hu, the Snatcher of Wedding, The Emerald Bodhisattva, Shen-Sheng was better plays, but Shen-Sheng had researched less. This paper had researched the characters in Shen-Sheng from A. J. Greimas’ the actantial model. This paper first researched the history of Shen, Sheng, and knew that playwright adapted what point of history in Shen-Sheng. This study found that: First, Shen-Sheng’s adaption point was to display drama, but not display history. Second, the actantial model of narrative and the actantial model of characters didn’t had the same. Third, the actantial model of Li-Ji had four structure, introduction, support, reversal, climax. Fourth, Shao-Ji’s object was to save herself in sharp contrast to Li-Ji. Fifth, You-Shih was Li-Ji’s important helper, and he pushed the action. Sixth, the minor characters did not have object so can't structure the actantial model.
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