摘要
任何历史剧都是现代戏,莎士比亚从英雄史观的角度,用历史加艺术的手法,主要演绎了前朝一百五十多年的历史,通过英法百年战争、玫瑰战争解开了英法贵族、贵族与王室的盘根错节,揭示了英国贵族统治衰亡的根本原因,以及历史不以人的意志为转移的必然走向,即英国政体从“君权神授”到“君主专制”再到“君主立宪”方能从根本上解决王位的继承难题。
All history plays project into the contemporary.Shakespeare adopted the Great Man approach to history,and more dramatizing than absolute historic accuracy,the majority of his canon spanned a period of about approximately 150 years of the previous dynasties.Against the background of the Hundred Years’War and the War of the Roses,his histories helped crack the nut of understanding the English nobility related to the monarchy and sprung in root from the French nobility.Thus the decline of the rule by the nobility is so inevitable and independent to human will that the form of the English government evolved from God’s mandate to absolute monarchy and then to Constitutional monarchy,which will solve the perennial problem of succession to the throne.
