Study on Representation of Madness in the English Renaissace Society and the Elizabethan Drama.

英国文艺复兴时期社会和伊丽莎白时代戏剧中疯狂表现的研究。

• 批准号: 12610506
• 负责人: NAKANO Haruo
• 金额: $ 2.56万
• 依托单位: Gakushuin University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2000 至 2003
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-12610506/
• 关键词: madness; Shakespeare; the English Renaissance society; melancholy; the Elizabethan drama; 精神病; エクソシズム; エキソシズム; シェイクスピア悲劇

The aim of this project is to research representation of madness in the English Renaissance society and the Elizabethan drama, especially Shakespeare's. In the Elizabethan society, madness aroused serious social anxiety because some kinds of "madness", such as possession, could not be medically cured. Moreover, "mad" man could not expect almost any governmental and legal protection though radical Poor Laws were issued then.This project has analysed a broad range of contemporary physiological and medical literature, and made it clear that Shakespeare were inspired by Laurentius's study on melancholy and old age and King James the First's News from Scotland. Shakespeare's representation of madness is much indebted to contemporary medical studies both in symptoms of madness and in their interesting mind-bending narratives.

该项目的目的是研究英国文艺复兴社会和伊丽莎白时代戏剧，特别是莎士比亚戏剧中疯狂的表现。在伊丽莎白时代的社会，疯狂引起了严重的社会焦虑，因为某些类型的“疯狂”，例如附体，无法通过医学治愈。此外，尽管当时颁布了激进的济贫法，“疯子”几乎不能指望得到任何政府和法律的保护。本项目分析了广泛的当代生理学和医学文献，并清楚地表明莎士比亚受到了劳伦蒂斯关于忧郁和老年的研究以及国王詹姆斯一世的苏格兰新闻的启发。莎士比亚对疯狂的描述很大程度上得益于当代医学研究，无论是在疯狂的症状还是在有趣的令人费解的叙述中。