Juliet,Portia and Cordelia are three heroines in plays of King Lear,Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice written by Shakespeare.Although they are endowed with various personalities,the three women have all show...Juliet,Portia and Cordelia are three heroines in plays of King Lear,Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice written by Shakespeare.Although they are endowed with various personalities,the three women have all shown a brave trait in their character,which makes them become the representatives of brave women.Deformation and equivalence are two important terms used to describe the deduction of topological spaces.From a topological perspective,the thesis purports to study and interpret the distinctive and vivid artistic images of Juliet,Portia and Cordelia,finding that their diverse artistic images and similar bravery are in response to the transformation and equivalence in literary metaphorical topological spaces.It helps to explain the reason why Shakespeare had created so many colorful female images.In this sense,this paper provides a new point of view and a new mechanism to interpret Shakespeare’s plays.展开更多
The female images in Shakespeare’s plays are diverse and colorful,showing the typological deformation value of topology.The brave female women in his plays,such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet,Portia in The Merchant of...The female images in Shakespeare’s plays are diverse and colorful,showing the typological deformation value of topology.The brave female women in his plays,such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet,Portia in The Merchant of Venice,Cordelia in King Lear,are the same type and equivalent topological deformation.In artistic terms,the three women of the same type with their own characteristics are the deformed topological space under the principle of equivalence,which is embodied vividly in the source text.This thesis purposed to investigate whether the translation of Zhu Shenghao also reflected the equivalent deformation of Shakespeare’s original text.This study texts the validity of the target text from the source text,proves the evaluation mechanism and function of topology in the process of translation and explains how the translation is equivalent to the original.展开更多
In the 16th and 17th century,Britain was constantly strained by sporadic plagues,famines,fires and political conflicts.As a response in literature,Shakespeare has constructed an annular locomotion paradigm in Fletcher...In the 16th and 17th century,Britain was constantly strained by sporadic plagues,famines,fires and political conflicts.As a response in literature,Shakespeare has constructed an annular locomotion paradigm in Fletcher and his collaboration work Cardenio.Be more specific,the locomotion routes can be exemplified in Möbius strip,a rhizome system,a reciprocating juxtaposition between the foreground and the background,either of which finally runs to an annular schema.The annular in narration corresponds with The Globe theater and the round world.Shakespeare may express his expectation and prospect for the uprising bourgeoise and the newly found world by the resurrection theme in literature.展开更多
King Lear is considered to be Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.Using analysis of the play and the contemporary politics of Jacobe an time,this paper examines how this play serves its traditional role as a"mirro...King Lear is considered to be Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.Using analysis of the play and the contemporary politics of Jacobe an time,this paper examines how this play serves its traditional role as a"mirror for princess"play and how a broader dimension provided by a Christianized natural law is available for the exploration of possibilities of human experiences.展开更多
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventee...Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventeenth,eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.People believed or were led to believe that Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies were in clear opposition:Shakespeare’s comedies were sweet,romantic,amiable,popular and entertaining,whereas Jonson’s were based on an abstract theory of humors,cold,satiric,pedantic,and moralizing.Only in the last century did these oppositions begin to change,but too slowly.This paper calls those binary oppositions into question.It tries to present a more truthful picture of these two playwrights and their comedies through an examination of some of their works.It argues that some of those oppositions are stereotypes and should not be taken seriously by contemporary Shakespearean and Jonsonian scholars.展开更多
Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,...Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,Jews' "Bible" has become a source of literary and artistic creation,but the image of Jews were excluded from the literary and artistic creation,even if there were some occasions,they were but described as autistic Misers or loan shark.Shakespeare is one of the most outstanding writers;he described many people from all walks of life in his works,the Jews,also included.Based on the corpus of Shakespeare's works,we can see that most adjectives used by Shakespeare to modify the word "Jew"are derogative words.Therefore,we can prove that anti-Semitism does exist in Shakespeare's works.展开更多
Shakespeare is one of the most brilliant playwrights and poets in the Middle Ages. Shakespeare's sonnets created during 1592 to 1598 is not only one of the greatest achievements of his, but also a great leap forwa...Shakespeare is one of the most brilliant playwrights and poets in the Middle Ages. Shakespeare's sonnets created during 1592 to 1598 is not only one of the greatest achievements of his, but also a great leap forward to sonnet itself. With the development of sonnets, Chinese poets begin to learn from western traditional sonnets. Among these poets, Bai Ma is a typical representative. This thesis aims to make a comparison between western traditional sonnets and Chinese sonnets to find out their similarities and dissimilarities through studying Shakespeare's and Bai Ma's respective magnum opuses, and to further promote the literary communication of the East-West.展开更多
About Shakespeare's classic learning, Ben Jonson's"small Latin and less Greek"has long been regarded precise and pertinent. This essay, however, is to explore the other part of the picture. In King L...About Shakespeare's classic learning, Ben Jonson's"small Latin and less Greek"has long been regarded precise and pertinent. This essay, however, is to explore the other part of the picture. In King Lear, Shakespeare has shown adroit application of Elizabethan rhetoric devices like hypallage, polyptoton and anadiplosis. It denotes his somewhat rigid grammar school training especially in oratory, which partly explains his classism.展开更多
The paper introduces the tradition of English sonnets, and explores how Shakespeare inherits the tradition and developshis own distinctiveness in his sonnets.
This thesis carefully appreciated situational irony in some of Shakespeare's tragedies successively,and classified situational irony into four kinds:discrepancy between appearance and reality,expectation and fulfi...This thesis carefully appreciated situational irony in some of Shakespeare's tragedies successively,and classified situational irony into four kinds:discrepancy between appearance and reality,expectation and fulfilment,intention and outcome,the actual circumstances and appropriateness.In the analysis of the first kind of situational irony,especially,the thesis focused on Antony and Cleopatra,together with Julius Caesar,questioned the common idea,and stated that Antony's failure was not because of his passion towards Cleopatra.Cleopatra was only his screen to cheat the world,an excuse of his " face-saving failure".展开更多
The character of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice is both intriguing and compelling. Hateful and greedy as he is on the onehand, yet suffered and pathetic on the other. Shakespeare is quite considerate in creating th...The character of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice is both intriguing and compelling. Hateful and greedy as he is on the onehand, yet suffered and pathetic on the other. Shakespeare is quite considerate in creating the character. This paper explores the possibili-ties behind Shakespeare, contradictory construction of Shylock.展开更多
The teaching of Shakespeare’s sonnet 34, among others, was attempted in order to counterbalance an overabundance of "survey" courses and to take the students deeply into a single major writer a poet again t...The teaching of Shakespeare’s sonnet 34, among others, was attempted in order to counterbalance an overabundance of "survey" courses and to take the students deeply into a single major writer a poet again to counterbalance an overabundance of courses on prose writers. Sonnet 34 provided a few challenges in several archaic words, and in some Christian terms, but dealing with these left the students in a good position to successfully ingest and enjoy this and other sonnets.展开更多
Honour, one of the eternal themes in Shakespeare, is again in the spotlightin Henry IV Part I. In this play, the rivalry between Prince Hal and Hotspuremerges actually out of their cravings for the title of royal hono...Honour, one of the eternal themes in Shakespeare, is again in the spotlightin Henry IV Part I. In this play, the rivalry between Prince Hal and Hotspuremerges actually out of their cravings for the title of royal honour and valour.Hotspur appears to be formidable, courageous and energetic. He is exactly展开更多
Oxford English Dictionary gives its second definition under the word "irony":"a condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outco...Oxford English Dictionary gives its second definition under the word "irony":"a condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things." Here I would like to classify Situational Irony into four kinds.展开更多
In 2017,the Tokyo Arts Festival invited theatre directors from three geographical locations to direct Shakespeare’s plays:The British director John Caird directed Hamlet,the Romanian director Silviu Purcārete direct...In 2017,the Tokyo Arts Festival invited theatre directors from three geographical locations to direct Shakespeare’s plays:The British director John Caird directed Hamlet,the Romanian director Silviu Purcārete directed Richard III,and the Belgian director Ivo Van Hove directed a Dutch Othello.They approached Shakespeare’s plays from unique perspectives,using their own native or Japanese language,working with Japanese and foreign actors and staff.They were performed in Tokyo and watched by various audiences.This paper examines the interactive effect of international theatre and the Tokyo Arts Festival and argues that Shakespeare,being a common currency in the world,functions as media for the Festival,and vice versa.While the Festival provides opportunities and support for foreign directors and companies,staging of international Shakespeare productions raises the profile of the Festival and promotes artistic and cultural programmes and exchange internationally.The audience also has much to gain:the Festival allows them to experience cultural differences and a reflection of themselves or of the world in works of art.The paper argues that the differences created in the international Shakespearean productions and realized and experienced by the audience are the essence of the theatre and meaning and value of the Festival.展开更多
Though many scholars and critics have made efforts explaining its connotation and influence from philosophical,religious and historical perspective about Samuel Johnson’s statement that Shakespeare is“A Poet of Nat...Though many scholars and critics have made efforts explaining its connotation and influence from philosophical,religious and historical perspective about Samuel Johnson’s statement that Shakespeare is“A Poet of Nature”,it is still worthy of discussion.As a Neoclassical critic,Johnson revealed Shakespeare’s genuine faculties through comparison with Homer following John Dryden and Alexzander Popeto illustrate the dramatic writing process.Then Shakespeare’s genius in natural acquisition of human nature and literature tradition,adaptation and concatenation to make something novelty,and selection of original language and characters is exemplified to analyze mixed genre,irregular structure,natural dialogue and characters under the principle of general nature.展开更多
Shakespeare’s Temperament is a hot topic in Shakespearean criticism history when Dryden established a humor-temperament-oriented literary history through the perspective of Greek-Roman traditional medicine theory and...Shakespeare’s Temperament is a hot topic in Shakespearean criticism history when Dryden established a humor-temperament-oriented literary history through the perspective of Greek-Roman traditional medicine theory and Renaissance attitudes towards giants and genius.From Dryden’s analogical inference,Shakespeare,the father of England dramatic poesy,is supposed to be Choleric-sanguine like vigorous and pioneering Homer who is versed in the design of the fable and thought,instead of being a correct poet like phlegmatic-melancholic Virgil improving the structure and language with his comprehensive mind and metaphorical thinking.展开更多
All grammatical rules leak. Grammar, as a science of expression, should be more subtle and less rigid; it should address itself more to the speaker’s intentions and less to the rules and definitions. Grammatical rule...All grammatical rules leak. Grammar, as a science of expression, should be more subtle and less rigid; it should address itself more to the speaker’s intentions and less to the rules and definitions. Grammatical rules are no more the articles of a criminal code than a gifted writer is a professional lawyer. Memory is the scribe展开更多
文摘Juliet,Portia and Cordelia are three heroines in plays of King Lear,Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice written by Shakespeare.Although they are endowed with various personalities,the three women have all shown a brave trait in their character,which makes them become the representatives of brave women.Deformation and equivalence are two important terms used to describe the deduction of topological spaces.From a topological perspective,the thesis purports to study and interpret the distinctive and vivid artistic images of Juliet,Portia and Cordelia,finding that their diverse artistic images and similar bravery are in response to the transformation and equivalence in literary metaphorical topological spaces.It helps to explain the reason why Shakespeare had created so many colorful female images.In this sense,this paper provides a new point of view and a new mechanism to interpret Shakespeare’s plays.
文摘The female images in Shakespeare’s plays are diverse and colorful,showing the typological deformation value of topology.The brave female women in his plays,such as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet,Portia in The Merchant of Venice,Cordelia in King Lear,are the same type and equivalent topological deformation.In artistic terms,the three women of the same type with their own characteristics are the deformed topological space under the principle of equivalence,which is embodied vividly in the source text.This thesis purposed to investigate whether the translation of Zhu Shenghao also reflected the equivalent deformation of Shakespeare’s original text.This study texts the validity of the target text from the source text,proves the evaluation mechanism and function of topology in the process of translation and explains how the translation is equivalent to the original.
基金Chongqing Social Science Fund Project“The Ethical Topology of Shakespeare’s Histories”(2020WYZX07).
文摘In the 16th and 17th century,Britain was constantly strained by sporadic plagues,famines,fires and political conflicts.As a response in literature,Shakespeare has constructed an annular locomotion paradigm in Fletcher and his collaboration work Cardenio.Be more specific,the locomotion routes can be exemplified in Möbius strip,a rhizome system,a reciprocating juxtaposition between the foreground and the background,either of which finally runs to an annular schema.The annular in narration corresponds with The Globe theater and the round world.Shakespeare may express his expectation and prospect for the uprising bourgeoise and the newly found world by the resurrection theme in literature.
文摘King Lear is considered to be Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.Using analysis of the play and the contemporary politics of Jacobe an time,this paper examines how this play serves its traditional role as a"mirror for princess"play and how a broader dimension provided by a Christianized natural law is available for the exploration of possibilities of human experiences.
文摘Shakespeare and Ben Jonson have frequently been paired up for comparison in studies of early modern English drama.Conventional views about Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies evolved and crystallized in the seventeenth,eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.People believed or were led to believe that Shakespeare’s and Jonson’s comedies were in clear opposition:Shakespeare’s comedies were sweet,romantic,amiable,popular and entertaining,whereas Jonson’s were based on an abstract theory of humors,cold,satiric,pedantic,and moralizing.Only in the last century did these oppositions begin to change,but too slowly.This paper calls those binary oppositions into question.It tries to present a more truthful picture of these two playwrights and their comedies through an examination of some of their works.It argues that some of those oppositions are stereotypes and should not be taken seriously by contemporary Shakespearean and Jonsonian scholars.
文摘Thousands of years ago,the Jews were forced to leave their homeland and began to live an exiled life and gradually melted into other neighboring peoples.However,they were not welcomed by others.For thousands of years,Jews' "Bible" has become a source of literary and artistic creation,but the image of Jews were excluded from the literary and artistic creation,even if there were some occasions,they were but described as autistic Misers or loan shark.Shakespeare is one of the most outstanding writers;he described many people from all walks of life in his works,the Jews,also included.Based on the corpus of Shakespeare's works,we can see that most adjectives used by Shakespeare to modify the word "Jew"are derogative words.Therefore,we can prove that anti-Semitism does exist in Shakespeare's works.
文摘Shakespeare is one of the most brilliant playwrights and poets in the Middle Ages. Shakespeare's sonnets created during 1592 to 1598 is not only one of the greatest achievements of his, but also a great leap forward to sonnet itself. With the development of sonnets, Chinese poets begin to learn from western traditional sonnets. Among these poets, Bai Ma is a typical representative. This thesis aims to make a comparison between western traditional sonnets and Chinese sonnets to find out their similarities and dissimilarities through studying Shakespeare's and Bai Ma's respective magnum opuses, and to further promote the literary communication of the East-West.
文摘About Shakespeare's classic learning, Ben Jonson's"small Latin and less Greek"has long been regarded precise and pertinent. This essay, however, is to explore the other part of the picture. In King Lear, Shakespeare has shown adroit application of Elizabethan rhetoric devices like hypallage, polyptoton and anadiplosis. It denotes his somewhat rigid grammar school training especially in oratory, which partly explains his classism.
文摘The paper introduces the tradition of English sonnets, and explores how Shakespeare inherits the tradition and developshis own distinctiveness in his sonnets.
文摘This thesis carefully appreciated situational irony in some of Shakespeare's tragedies successively,and classified situational irony into four kinds:discrepancy between appearance and reality,expectation and fulfilment,intention and outcome,the actual circumstances and appropriateness.In the analysis of the first kind of situational irony,especially,the thesis focused on Antony and Cleopatra,together with Julius Caesar,questioned the common idea,and stated that Antony's failure was not because of his passion towards Cleopatra.Cleopatra was only his screen to cheat the world,an excuse of his " face-saving failure".
文摘The character of Shylock in the Merchant of Venice is both intriguing and compelling. Hateful and greedy as he is on the onehand, yet suffered and pathetic on the other. Shakespeare is quite considerate in creating the character. This paper explores the possibili-ties behind Shakespeare, contradictory construction of Shylock.
文摘The teaching of Shakespeare’s sonnet 34, among others, was attempted in order to counterbalance an overabundance of "survey" courses and to take the students deeply into a single major writer a poet again to counterbalance an overabundance of courses on prose writers. Sonnet 34 provided a few challenges in several archaic words, and in some Christian terms, but dealing with these left the students in a good position to successfully ingest and enjoy this and other sonnets.
文摘Honour, one of the eternal themes in Shakespeare, is again in the spotlightin Henry IV Part I. In this play, the rivalry between Prince Hal and Hotspuremerges actually out of their cravings for the title of royal honour and valour.Hotspur appears to be formidable, courageous and energetic. He is exactly
文摘Oxford English Dictionary gives its second definition under the word "irony":"a condition of affairs or events of a character opposite to what was, or might naturally be, expected; a contradictory outcome of events as if in mockery of the promise and fitness of things." Here I would like to classify Situational Irony into four kinds.
文摘In 2017,the Tokyo Arts Festival invited theatre directors from three geographical locations to direct Shakespeare’s plays:The British director John Caird directed Hamlet,the Romanian director Silviu Purcārete directed Richard III,and the Belgian director Ivo Van Hove directed a Dutch Othello.They approached Shakespeare’s plays from unique perspectives,using their own native or Japanese language,working with Japanese and foreign actors and staff.They were performed in Tokyo and watched by various audiences.This paper examines the interactive effect of international theatre and the Tokyo Arts Festival and argues that Shakespeare,being a common currency in the world,functions as media for the Festival,and vice versa.While the Festival provides opportunities and support for foreign directors and companies,staging of international Shakespeare productions raises the profile of the Festival and promotes artistic and cultural programmes and exchange internationally.The audience also has much to gain:the Festival allows them to experience cultural differences and a reflection of themselves or of the world in works of art.The paper argues that the differences created in the international Shakespearean productions and realized and experienced by the audience are the essence of the theatre and meaning and value of the Festival.
文摘Though many scholars and critics have made efforts explaining its connotation and influence from philosophical,religious and historical perspective about Samuel Johnson’s statement that Shakespeare is“A Poet of Nature”,it is still worthy of discussion.As a Neoclassical critic,Johnson revealed Shakespeare’s genuine faculties through comparison with Homer following John Dryden and Alexzander Popeto illustrate the dramatic writing process.Then Shakespeare’s genius in natural acquisition of human nature and literature tradition,adaptation and concatenation to make something novelty,and selection of original language and characters is exemplified to analyze mixed genre,irregular structure,natural dialogue and characters under the principle of general nature.
文摘Shakespeare’s Temperament is a hot topic in Shakespearean criticism history when Dryden established a humor-temperament-oriented literary history through the perspective of Greek-Roman traditional medicine theory and Renaissance attitudes towards giants and genius.From Dryden’s analogical inference,Shakespeare,the father of England dramatic poesy,is supposed to be Choleric-sanguine like vigorous and pioneering Homer who is versed in the design of the fable and thought,instead of being a correct poet like phlegmatic-melancholic Virgil improving the structure and language with his comprehensive mind and metaphorical thinking.
文摘All grammatical rules leak. Grammar, as a science of expression, should be more subtle and less rigid; it should address itself more to the speaker’s intentions and less to the rules and definitions. Grammatical rules are no more the articles of a criminal code than a gifted writer is a professional lawyer. Memory is the scribe
