Researches in the Literature of Slander in Early Modern England

本研究以近代早期英国人的心理为中心，分析了近代早期英国教会法庭证词中的诽谤观念与近代早期英国诽谤文学中所代表的诽谤观念之间的关系。研究结果如下：1。对近代早期英国关于戏剧的争论融入诽谤文学传统的过程的阐释，尤其关注《哈姆雷特》与托马斯·海伍德的《演员的道歉》之间的联系。分析莎士比亚《一报还一报》中公爵赦免造势过程中产生的诽谤。这一分析运用了新历史主义的方法论以及娜塔莉·泽蒙·戴维斯在《档案中的小说：16世纪法国的赦免故事及其讲述者》（1987）中所探索的视角。在莎士比亚的《奥赛罗》中，对剥夺苔丝狄蒙娜代理权并迫使奥赛罗扮演戴绿帽子角色的诽谤的各个方面的解释。

Focusing upon the mentality of early modern English people, this research analyses the relationship between ideas of slander in depositions of the church courts and those represented in the literature of slander in early modern England. The results of researches are as follows :1. The elucidation of the process in which the disputes over the theatricality merged into the tradition of defamation literature in early modern England, especially focusing upon the relevance between Hamlet and Thomas Heywood's An Apology for Actors.2. The analysis of slanders that are generated in the process of fashioning ducal pardons in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. This analysis makes use of the methodology of the new historicism as well as the perspective explored in Natalie Zemon Davis's Fiction in the Archives : Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (1987).3. The explication of facets of the defamation, which deprives Desdemona of the agency and urges Othello to play the part of cuckold, in Shakespeare's Othello.