《雅典的泰门》的瘟疫书写与城市文化

The Plague Writing and City Culture in the Timon of Athens

《雅典的泰门》讲述了泰门由于挥霍浪费从腰缠万贯的贵族到赤贫流放者的悲剧,批评家们往往注意到剧中的金钱主题,特别是他有关金子的描述更是成为马克思分析货币价值问题的经典案例。但此剧还包含着瘟疫主题,剧中出现了大量有关瘟疫描述,显示出莎士比亚在1606年左右创作《泰门》时还受到同时代伦敦瘟疫暴发的影响。本文拟从该剧中的瘟疫叙事出发,分析剧中瘟疫传染性、颠倒以及牺牲因素等瘟疫主题,指出《雅典的泰门》中的瘟疫表述受到了同时代城市文化中有关瘟疫的流行观念的影响。

Shakespeare's tragedy Timon of Athens shows Timon's tragedy from a extremely wealthy noble to a penniless exile by his generous splurge.Critics pay much attention On the money theme of this play,and Karl Marx takes the description of gold by Timon as a typical example to analyze the monetary value.But this play also contains plague theme as there are many descriptions about plague,obviously,it shows that Timon(1606)was influenced by the outbreaks of plague in London during that time.This paper tries to analyze the factors of infectivity,reversal and sacrifice of plague theme in Timon,point out that the play was influenced by the popular thought of plague in contemporary city culture.