文化转型期汤显祖与莎士比亚“死生命题”比较

A Comparison of "Life and Death" Between Tang Xianzu and Shakespeare in the Period of Cultural Transformation

汤显祖与莎士比亚分别是中西文化转型时期的觉醒者形象。论文围绕《哈姆莱特》和《牡丹亭》,从作者所处新旧思想交织的转型文化语境进行了阐释。在文化思考上,如果说莎士比亚在借鉴宗教人文性一面的基础上又不可避免地吸纳了它的保守与愚昧,那么汤显祖则是在思考如何在源于生命自由和婚恋自由的人情状态下实现生活中的一种可能与突围。在知识论上,二者展开了对"死生命题"的知识论与"至情"论的不同追问。

Tang Xian-zu and Shakespeare are the awakened images of Chinese and Western cultures transformation respectively. The paper revolves around Hamlet and Peony Pavilion, explains the cultural context of transformation characterized with both old and new ideology. In terms of cultural thinking, if Shakespeare inevitably absorbed his conservatism and ignorance on the basis of absorbing religious humanism, Tang Xian-zu is thinking about how to realize the possibility and breakthrough of life under the human condition of freedom of life and freedom of marriage and love. In the theory of knowledge, they put forward different questions about ＂life and death＂ for the theory of knowledge and the theory of ＂extreme emotion＂.