《亨利五世》的宗教预表论和政治地图学推演

The Deductions of Typology and Political Cartography in Henry V

《亨利五世》蕴藏的宗教预表论和政治地图学看似毫不相干,实则共同建构了百年战争期间英格兰权力想象这一至关重要的时代主题。据此,莎士比亚以《圣经·民数记》的君权神授观念、阿金库尔之战中英王的激情演讲及神勇表现为理据,结合西方悠久的政治地图学传统,演绎出圣权、圣言和圣战等寓意深刻的宗教空间政治隐喻。其结果在于,《亨利五世》不仅创建了英国中世纪晚期庄严的君主圣像学和帝王预表论,而且与文艺复兴欧洲的人文主义一起生产出伊丽莎白一世晚期颇具文化协商意义的悖论性法国形象。

Despite of their superficial irrelevance,religious typology and political cartography co-construct the power imagination of England,a fundamental theme of the age in the War of Hundred Years. Via the concept of divine royal power in The Numbers,passionate speech in Agincourt,and heroic behavior,Shakespeare deducts meaningful metaphors of religious spaces,such as divine heritage,word of God and holy war,etc.,which are deeply rooted in long-standing tradition of western cartography. These images also initiate a magnificent monarchy iconography and an imperial typology and ultimately round off a paradoxical identity of France with the assistance of humanism in early modern Europe.