キャタリーナのストーリー : 『じゃじゃ馬ならし』を読み直す

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During the past twenty years or so, four major lines of criticism-psychoanalytic, feminist, new historicism, cultural materialist-have emerged and made us aware that not only the poet but also the reader exists in history. The revision of poet's work is, therefore, to locate the modern reader in his/her own historical moment as well as the text itself. Any critical endeavour of reading Shakespeare takes dual process of activity. Namely, we are reading two different stories at once: the story that Shakespeare's audience enjoyed on the contemporary Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, and the story that we read/create between the lines and behind the scenes in our own historical location. This paper is one step to examine how such a play as The Taming of the Shrew, which advocates the system of patriarchal hegemony prevailed in every particle of Elizabethan society, can be localized in the modern reassessment of Shakespeare through gender-conscious reading. The critical reading of the play consists of three parts: Patruchio's story, Katherina's story, and Sly's story. The first two stories, Petruchio's and Katherina's, tell his/her own version of the taming of the shrew, demonstrating the procedure of which the gender/identity politics is negotiated to establish its ideologically righteous power system. The Sly's story, on the other hand, as an induction to the taming of the shrew plot created for the entertainment of the Lord and Sly, negates the whole process of battle for power as theatrical illusion.
2001-12-20

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小野良子
文学部イギリス文学専攻

キャタリーナのストーリー : 『じゃじゃ馬ならし』を読み直す

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