莎士比亚的君主思想刍议

On Shakespeare’s Conceptions of Monarchs

莎士比亚在其伟大的创作生涯中表现出了对君主的浓厚兴趣,创作了多部以君主名字命名的戏剧作品。在这些戏剧文本中莎翁阐释了君主要以国家利益至上、要有随时制宜的道德准则的君主思想。但与马基雅维里君主思想的直白而具有乐观倾向相比,莎翁所流露出的却是含蓄而悲愤的思想倾向,二者有异曲同工之妙。

Shakespeare showed strong interest in monarchs as a great playwright, thus wrote a number of plays named after some Monarchs. And what’s more, in the plays his conceptions on Monarchs who should take their nation’s interests as paramountcy and should possess the moral criteria of the pragmatic are apparently presented. However, compared with Machiavelli’s conceptions on Monarchs , the ideological tendency that Shakespeare disclosed is implicit and pessimistic, while Machiavelli’s is explicit and optimistic.