Ovidianism in the English Renaissance

奥维德对英国文学的影响在15世纪80年代和90年代尤为显著。奥维德诗歌的几个译本被出版，大量的伊比利亚或奥维德短篇史诗被写成，奥维德的意象经常被用在伊丽莎白时代戏剧的诗歌语言中。这项研究项目的目的是找到一个可能的答案，即奥维迪亚主义对伊丽莎白时代的诗人和剧作家意味着什么--特别是克里斯托弗·马洛(1564-93年)和威廉·莎士比亚(1564-1616)。首席调查员论文《翻译古典文学--马洛的所有奥维德挽歌等》。(Japan)(1997)认为，马洛通过将奥维德的爱情诗阿莫雷斯翻译成英语的经验，建立了英语诗歌的形式和修辞。第二篇文章《黎明与英雄的脸红：奥维迪主义作为一种悲剧性的宇宙学》(日本)(1998年)和第三篇文章《朱庇特的高天和这片美丽而欢快的绿色：马洛的戏剧宇宙》(1999年)认为，马洛和年轻的莎士比亚根据奥维德挽歌和史诗中的一些意象形成了威胁宇宙的形象。他们的剧场环境与古典希腊悲剧截然不同，他们似乎试图通过使用异教神话的诗意意象来创造属于自己的想象的戏剧空间。奥维德以他关于不负责任的神的色情和异教神话、他的叙事艺术和他顽皮的修辞而闻名，可以得出这样的结论：马洛和他的一些同时代诗人发现，当他们想要自由地、纯粹地艺术地表达他们的新思想和情感时，奥维德的修辞和诗歌意象在战略上是有用的。因此，奥维迪亚主义是一种暂时的现象，是在剧作家努力从政府和宗教中独立出来的时候看到的。

The influence of Ovid on the English literature was conspicuous in 1580s and 1590s. Several translations of Ovid's poems were published, a lot of epyllia or Ovidian short epics were written, and Ovidian imagery was frequently used in the poetic language of Elizabethan theatre. The aim of this research project has been to find a possible answer to the question of what Ovidianism meant to Elizabethan poets and playwrights-especially Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616). The head investigator's essay "Translating Classical Literature-Marlowe's All Ovids Elegies, etc." (Japanese) (1997) argues that Marlowe came to establish English verse form and rhetoric through his experience of translating Ovid's love poems Amores into English. The second essay "Dawn and Hero's Blush : Ovidianism as a Tragic Cosmology" (Japanese) (1998) and the third essay "Jove's High Firmament and This Fair and Pleasant Green : Marlowe's Theatrical Cosmos" (Japanese) (1999) argue that Marlowe and young Shakespeare formed their images of threatrical cosmos adapting some images from Ovid's elegiac and epic poems. The conditions of their theater were quite different from those of classical Greek tragedy, and it seems that they tried to create an imaginary dramatic space of their own by using some poetic imagery of pagan mythology. Ovid was distinguished for his erotic and pagan mythology of irresponsible gods, for his narrative art and for his playfully fine rhetoric, It can be concluded that Marlowe and some of his contemporary poets discovered that Ovid's rhetoric and poetic imagery were strategically useful when they wanted to give free and purely artistic expression to their new thought and sensibility. Thus Ovidianism was a temporary phenomenon that was seen while dramatists were striving to get independent from the government and religion.