ウィリアム・ペインター作「ロミオとジュリエッタ」論 : 解説と翻訳

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"Romeo and Julietta" is the 25th novel of William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure, Tome 2 (1567), and is one of the sources of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1595). Painter's "Romeo and Julietta" is a minor source compared to Arthur Brooke's The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet (1562), which Shakespeare mainly referred to, and therefore has not been paid much attention to so far. This essay first tries to evaluate Painter's work as the second source of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by comparing it with Brooke's and Shakespeare's. Through the comparison of each work's introduction of the story, handling of "Fortune", characters of Romeo/Romeus and Juliet/Julietta, and the ending of the story, it is obvious how Shakespeare arranged his sources to make his dramatic version effective for the audience's minds. It can also be seen that Shakespeare is not only under the influence of Brooke's long poetic story, but also had the effects of Painter's simple and compact story in mind. The latter part of this essay is a Japanese translation of Painter's "Romeo and Julietta", which will make it easier to compare Shakespeare's two sources.