Between the Acts and Louis Napoleon Parker - the Creator of the Modern English Pageant'
Between the Acts and Louis Napoleon Parker - the Creator of the Modern English Pageant'
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《幕间与现代英国选美的缔造者路易斯·拿破仑·帕克》
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10.3167/001115703782351790
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2003
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Ayako Yoshino
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《幕间戏》是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫最具政治性的小说之一。2曾因其“极其空洞和毫无意义”以及缺乏对“外部世界”的关注而受到攻击，3现在人们普遍认为它是对法西斯主义、父权制和第二次世界大战即将到来的深刻回应。4然而，虽然这本书的女权主义和和平主义主题得到了很好的探讨，但它的中心主题——一场乡村盛会——从其历史背景来看却没有得到很好的理解。上下文。批评家倾向于从传统的角度来看待它。亚历克斯·茨韦德林 (Alex Zwerdling) 将选美比赛视为战前英国社会的象征。他写道，“传统的乡村盛会与许多角色中非常非传统的紧张和紧张的期待并存。”5 对于凯伦·施奈德来说，这种“传统的英国盛会”的选择让人想起“田园传统”。6 其他评论家也看到了与旧戏剧形式的联系。伍尔夫的选美表演被解释为希腊戏剧的隐喻，或者与伊丽莎白时代的剧院有关，作者在其中探索了新艺术社区的可能性及其政治含义。 7尽管所有这些解释都富有洞察力，但它们保留了对选美表演的完整看法，即在幕间表演中的村民至少表面上正在参与传统的社区戏剧。事实上，伍尔夫时代的选美并不是传统的戏剧形式，伍尔夫一定也意识到了这一点。 《幕间戏》的主题是一种当代的、高度政治化的戏剧形式，它是在不到四十年前“发明”的。它始于 1905 年，在多塞特郡舍伯恩，路易斯·拿破仑·帕克（Louis Napoleon Parker，1852-1944 年）指导了第一届现代选美比赛并抓住了大众的想象力。舍伯恩选美活动原计划约有一百人参与，但后来扩大到约九百人。与伍尔夫同时代的罗伯特·威辛顿在他对英语的历史考察中戏剧性地描述了这种情况
Between the Acts is one of Virginia Woolf 's most political novels.2 Once attacked for 'its extraordinary vacancy and pointlessness' and its lack of concern for 'an external world',3 it is now generally understood to be a deeply felt response to fascism, patriarchy and the coming of the Second World War.4 However, while the book's feminist and pacifist themes are well explored, its central motif, a village pageant, is not well understood in terms of its historical context. Critics have tended to regard it in terms of tradition. Alex Zwerdling regards the pageant as a symbol of pre-war English society. 'The traditional village pageant' he writes, 'is juxtaposed against a very untraditional tension and nervous expectancy in many of its characters'.5 For Karen Schneider, this choice of 'the traditional English pageant' is evocative of 'the pastoral tradition'.6 Other critics have seen connections with older theatre forms. Woolf 's pageant has been interpreted as a metaphor of Greek drama, or in relation to the Elizabethan playhouse, in which the author explored the possibility of a new artistic community and its political implications.7 Insightful as all these interpretations are, they leave one view of the pageant intact that the villagers in Between the Acts are, at least ostensibly, participating in traditional community theatre. In fact, the pageant in Woolf 's time was not a traditional theatre form, and Woolf must have been aware of it. The subject of the action in Between the Acts was a contemporary and highly political form of theatre that had been 'invented' less than four decades before. It started in 1905, in Sherborne, Dorset, when Louis Napoleon Parker (1852-1944) directed the first modern pageant and seized the popular imagination. The Sherborne Pageant was originally planned to involve about a hundred people, but expanded to involve about nine hundred. Robert Withington, a contemporary of Woolf, describes the situation dramatically in his historical survey of English