表面の美学 : O.ワイルド「意向集」より(2)

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Of all the essays in O. Wilde's Intentions, "The Truth of Masks" is the one which was written earliest, although it comes last in one-volume book of the Methuen edition. In fact it originally appeared in the Nineteenth Century in May, 1886 with the title of "Shakespeare and Stage Costume." This essay, as is suggested by its first title, is apparently one of Wilde's scholastic achievements on Shakespearean plays, but it seems to us that what he really meant to say here was to claim the value of beauty on the superficial things like costumes, ornaments, etc. along with that of archaeological accuracy in dramas as being quite an important element of Art. Wilde's aestheticism has long been regarded as an artistic theory of the superficial, or aesthetics of the surface ; yet the surface, that is, 'Masks' to him are a means of telling the truth. At least the artistic truth can be most effectively conveyed through 'Masks', as Wilde asserts in this essay. The present writer (or rather translator we should say) has again tried putting the whole essay into our own language with the 'intention' of his own to see how much we could gain access to Wilde's paradoxical doctorine of beauty.
東京家政学院大学の論文
1981-10-01