莎士比亚与文艺复兴时期戏剧的社会地位

The Social Position of Drama In Shakespear and the Renaissance Period

莎士比亚戏剧是文艺复兴时期最伟大的成就之一。然而就戏剧在当时的社会地位而言 ,却属于下层文化范畴 ,戏剧的内容、形式以及演员都受到很大的限制 ,莎士比亚本人的命运和他被后世所公认的地位形成极大的反差。然而 ,莎士比亚戏剧的形成和发展 ,是文艺复兴革命的结果 。

Dramas by Skakespear have been regarded as one of the greatest accomplishments of the Renaissance period. In the case of the social position of drama at that time, however, it belonged in the field of the lower strata of culture, where drama was much limited from content and form to the cast. As a result, Shakespear's own fate sharply contrasts with his position acknowledged by later generations. Nevertheless, the formation and development of dramas by Shakespear is both the result of the revolution of the Renaissance and the incentive contributing to the most fundamental ideological change brought about by the revolution.