A Comprehensive Study on the Plays of St. John Ervine as a Playwright

剧作家圣约翰·欧文戏剧综合研究

• 批准号: 13610599
• 负责人: KONO Kenji
• 金额: $ 0.32万
• 依托单位: Kyushu Sangyo University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2001 至 2002
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-13610599/
• 关键词: Irish drama; Abbey Theatre; St. John Ervine; Northern Ireland Trouble; unionism; セント・ジョン・アーヴィン

1. St. John Ervine has been regarded as a traditional English playwright with his origin and local color as a Northern Irish writer paid little consideration so far. However, serious themes concerning Christian faith, particularly denominational conflict between Catholics and Protestants depicted in his early plays like Mixed Marriage, The Magnanimous Lover and The Orangeman indicate that his reassessment as a Northern Irish playwright is badly needed today.2. While Ervine has been giving us an impression as an out-and-out unionist, he depicted an old father desperately spellbound with rigid unionism in a critical, even reproachful way, which is quite noteworthy in connection with his biographical fact that he lost his own father as a baby.3. When Ervine was manager of Abbey Theatre in Dublin for nine months during the First World War, his political ideas and views of drama were totally incompatible with those of Abbey actors and led to produce inevitable friction, which partly caused him to leave Ireland for unionism. This rupture, therefore, deserves more attention and examination from a point of history of Irish theatre.4. Subjects of Ervine's plays are mainly characterized by generation/gender gap and conflict between individual and society. On the whole, Ervine sides with younger generation and independent female characters, as can be seen in The First Mrs. Fraser, Robert's Wife and Friends and Relations.5. Ervine's style in writing is at once communicative and very subtle in its implication and shades of meaning, sticking faithfully to the actual flow of everyday dialogues which is devoid or excessive frills.

1、圣约翰·欧文被认为是一位传统的英国剧作家，其出身和本土色彩是北爱尔兰作家迄今为止很少关注的。然而，他早期的剧作《异族通婚》、《宽宏的情人》、《橙人》中所描绘的有关基督教信仰的严肃主题，特别是天主教徒与新教徒之间的教派冲突，表明今天迫切需要重新评估他作为北爱尔兰剧作家的地位。2．虽然欧文一直给我们留下了一个不折不扣的工会主义者的印象，但他以一种批判的、甚至是责备的方式描绘了一位被僵化的工会主义绝望地迷住的老父亲，这与他在婴儿时期就失去了自己的父亲的传记事实有关，这是相当值得注意的。3。第一次世界大战期间，欧文在都柏林艾比剧院担任经理九个月时，他的政治理念和戏剧观与艾比演员完全不相容，导致不可避免的摩擦，这在一定程度上导致他离开爱尔兰投奔工会主义。因此，从爱尔兰戏剧史的角度来看，这种断裂值得更多的关注和审视。4．欧文戏剧的主题主要以代际/性别差距以及个人与社会之间的冲突为特征。总体而言，欧文站在年轻一代和独立女性角色一边，这一点在《弗雷泽第一夫人》、《罗伯特的妻子》和《朋友和关系》中可以看出。5．欧文的写作风格既具有沟通性，又在含义和含义上非常微妙，忠实地遵循日常对话的实际流程，没有或过多的装饰。