英国斯图亚特宫廷假面剧中的女性表演共同体

On Female Performance Community in English Stuart Court Masques

宫廷假面剧是英国文艺复兴时期文学的重要组成部分,也是早期现代英国国家形象和个人身份塑造的文学场域。在斯图亚特宫廷假面剧中,以安娜王后为代表的女性假面舞者虽然被动充当了宫廷政治话语的传播媒介,但她们也主动探求了独立的女性身份,表达了强烈的自我意识。她们积极利用舞台的阈限空间和身体的物质性表征力量,塑造了一个以女性身体为媒介的表演共同体,将无声的舞蹈当成身体的“语言”,实现了与斯图亚特宫廷的对话,质疑和挑战了这一时期的男权意识,也为文艺复兴时期女性进入专业戏剧和文学领域打下了基础。

As an essential part of English Renaissance literature,court masques provide a literary field for early modern England and its people to fashion identities.In Stuart court masques,female dancers represented by Queen Anna passively act as the propagation tools for the court’s political discourse,but they also actively pursue for independent identities and demonstrate a strong sense of selffashioning.They have,taking advantage of the material expressive force of the body in the liminal space of stage,regarded their silent dance as bodies’mute“language”,negotiated with Stuart’s court,questioned and challenged the Stuart patriarchy ideology.They imagine a female performance community with cross-border female bodies as the main medium,and have laid the foundation for early modern English women to enter the domain of drama and literature.