シェイクスピアと時間 : 400年の時を超える友情
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In Shakespeare's works, time always dominates over human beings. And so many characters in his works, so many ways of associating with time. This paper is trying to discuss Shakespeare's portrayal of relationships between human beings and time as the Absolute. Firstly, some logical inconsistency of time in Shakespeare's plays are mentioned. Shakespeare did not care much about the consistency of time in his writings. Such an attitude of his appears in his dramas as phenomena of anachronism, double-time, and some other inconsistencies of time. Shakespeare is so talented a dramatist that he can handle time freely in a space called theatre without making his audience aware of such inconsistency of time. Secondly, time's function as the Absolute in Shakespeare's works is discussed. Shakespeare is able to manipulate time at will in a theatre: On the other hand, time appears as the Absolute in many of his works. There are various figures in his works of drama, and every figure has their own attitude toward time: Some figures calmly wait for the time when Time the Revealer reveals the truth, others cannot help grieving about themselves being powerless over the force of time; but time is never resistible. Moreover, in his sonnets, time is usually described as the Destroyer. Shakespeare indeed recognise human powerlessness against the lapse of time. Lastly, human beings' struggle for not to be buried in the lapse of time, which are portrayed in Shakespeare's sonnets, are mentioned. In sonnets, Shakespeare describes attitudes of human beings who try to act against the power of time. They challenge time by leaving offspring or by describing what they want to make eternal in their works of art. Shakespeare created a number of wonderful works of drama and poetry, which are, although created about as long as 400 years ago, loved by many people today. Shakespeare, with his works of art, has escaped from being covered with the passage of time. Shakespeare's works gets along with time because Shakespeare understood the nature of time. He is not an enemy to time and time is no more an enemy to him; Shakespeare and time become good friends to each other.
- 2001-07-10