绘制莎士比亚的世界 Mapping Shakespeare's World

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 208 pages, 110 Illustrations, color

Publisher:Bodleian Library

Imprint:Bodleian Library

ISBN:9781851242573

Published:5 Feb 2016

Weight:754g

Dimensions:251 x 214 x 19 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

莎士比亚从来没有在他自己的伊丽莎白时代的伦敦设置过一个剧目。从哈姆雷特为父亲报仇的埃尔西诺城堡，到罗马帝国鼎盛时期克里奥帕特拉的亚历山大城，再到我们等待奥赛罗到来的塞浦路斯海港小镇，莎士比亚的每部戏剧都是在远离他的主要观众的时间或空间里进行的。这是为什么呢？诗人和他同时代的人对他的角色经常居住的外国土地了解多少？如果一出戏的帷幕拉开，声称发生在古代特洛伊或西班牙北部纳瓦拉的比利牛斯王国，观众会有怎样的期望？

《绘制莎士比亚的世界》对这些问题进行了探讨，结果令人惊讶。人们常说，环境与莎士比亚的戏剧无关--无论它们在哪里上演，其持久的吸引力都在于它们能够对人性的广泛问题进行阐述。彼得-惠特菲尔德表明，恰恰相反，莎士比亚的许多地点都是精心挑选的，因为它们能够传达微妙的含义，伊丽莎白时代的观众会发现并理解这些含义。通过使用绘画、素描、当代地图和地理文本，惠特菲尔德提出了一些问题的答案，如伊利里亚的位置、《温莎的快乐妻子》为什么只能在温莎发生，以及两部完全不同的喜剧--《错误的喜剧》和《推罗王子伯里克利》如何都发生在古代以弗所。

正当人们认为关于莎士比亚已经没有什么好说的时候，惠特菲尔德通过《绘制莎士比亚的世界》提供了一个迷人的新观点。

Shakespeare never set a play in his own Elizabethan London. From the castle in Elsinore where Hamlet avenges his father’s death to Cleopatra’s Alexandria at the height of the Roman Empire to the seaport town in Cyprus where we await the arrival of Othello, each of Shakespeare’s plays is set in a time or space remote from his primary audience. Why is this? How much did the Bard and his contemporaries know about the foreign lands his characters often inhabit? What expectations did an audience have if the curtains rose on a play which claimed to take place in ancient Troy or the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre in northern Spain?

Mapping Shakespeare’s World explores these questions with surprising results. It has often been said that setting is irrelevant to Shakespeare’s plays―that, wherever they are set, their enduring appeal lies in their ability to speak to broad questions of human nature. Peter Whitfield shows that, on the contrary, many of Shakespeare’s locations were carefully chosen for their ability to convey subtle meanings an Elizabethan audience would have picked up on and understood. Through the use of paintings, drawings, contemporary maps and geographical texts, Whitfield suggests answers to such questions as where Illyria was located, why The Merry Wives of Windsor could only have taken place in Windsor, and how two utterly different comedies―The Comedy of Errors and Pericles, Prince of Tyre―both came to take place in ancient Ephesus.

Just when one might think there was nothing more to be said about Shakespeare, with Mapping Shakespeare’s World, Whitfield offers a fascinating new point of view.

作者简介

彼得-惠特菲尔德是许多历史、诗歌和文学评论书籍的作者，包括《旅行 文学史》，也由博德雷恩图书馆出版。

Peter Whitfield is the author of numerous books of history, poetry, and literary criticism, including, Travel: A Literary History, also published by the Bodleian Library.