不断演变的威胁喜剧——论哈罗德·品特的家庭戏剧《回家》

The Constantly Changing Comedy of Menace——On Harold Pinter's Family Play The Homecoming

哈罗德·品特是20世纪荒诞派戏剧的代表作家之一,他一生的戏剧创作主要分为四个阶段:威胁喜剧、家庭戏剧、记忆戏剧和政治戏剧。《回家》是哈罗德·品特家庭戏剧的代表作之一,其创作手法在延续了威胁喜剧的艺术特点之外,还融入了家庭伦理等耐人寻味的道德元素。它以荒诞、匪夷所思,甚至是不可理解的人物关系为主线,以错位失衡的伦理关系作为反映当时社会道德的突破口,从另一层面丰富和发展了荒诞派戏剧的本质与内涵。

Harold Pinter is one of the most representative playwrights of Theatre of the Absurd in the 20 th century.The main creations of his life can be divided into four types:Comedy of Menace,Family Play,Memory Play and Politics Play.The homecoming is Pinter's magnum opus of Family Play.Besides the continuation of the art features in the Comedy of Menace,Pinter also puts the family ethical relations and other intriguing moral elements into his Family Play.It uses absurd,incredible,and even incomprehensible character relationship as the main line to reflect the distortion and lack of social moral with the dislocation and imbalance of ethical relations,and enrich and develop the nature and connotation of Theatre of the Absurd from another side.