You have beguiled me with a counterfeit': The Hallmark of Truth and the Exposure of Artifice in Shakespeare's Work

你用赝品欺骗了我”：莎士比亚作品中真理的标志和技巧的暴露

• 批准号: 2430040
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2430040
• 关键词: beguiled; me; counterfeit; Hallmark; Truth

This project is an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of Shakespeare's language of deception and disguise, expressed through imagery relating to metal, jewellery, coins, assaying (testing), hallmarking and counterfeiting and demonstrated through material fabrication. A combination of close textual analysis, contextual and historical research and extensive original practices-led investigations - facilitated by creating a partnership between the Shakespeare Institute (SI) and the Birmingham School of Jewellery (SofJ), supported by the Goldsmiths' Company Assay Office (GCAO) - will provide a new, material context for Shakespeare's vocabulary from the point of view of the goldsmith or assayer, enriching academic scholarship in the field of early modern material culture.Much has been written about deceptive appearances in Shakespeare, but almost nothing has been written from this standpoint. Studies tend to be limited to individual plays (Simmonds, 1992 and Saval, 2014) or confined to a single aspect (Newman, 2019 and Roberts, 2016). In a review of more than 170 books and articles to date, I have found no wide-ranging study, least of all one that combines textual analysis with original practices-led material investigation.Throughout my Masters, I have been fascinated by Shakespeare's use of language relating to metal and jewellery, and the frequent references to assaying that are largely lost on a modern-day audience. Key words applicable to the assaying process appear 1,312 times in the 41 plays that I have analysed. Gold as a noble metal is frequently used to describe royalty; but there is also a regular, negative association with gilding that reflects the technique of applying thin layers of gold to silver, or in the case of counterfeiting, to base metal, in order to fool the buyer. Shakespeare uses this language to express character traits and to explore ideas around falseness, corruption, fooling and disguise.

这个项目是一个跨学科的方法来检查莎士比亚的欺骗和伪装的语言，通过与金属，珠宝，硬币，化验（测试），标记和伪造有关的图像来表达，并通过材料制造来展示。紧密的文本分析，上下文和历史研究以及广泛的原始实践主导的调查相结合-通过在莎士比亚研究所（SI）和伯明翰珠宝学院（SofJ）之间建立伙伴关系，由金匠公司化验室（GCAO）提供支持-将从金匠或化验师的角度为莎士比亚的词汇提供新的物质背景，丰富了早期现代物质文化领域的学术研究。关于莎士比亚欺骗性的外表已经写了很多，但几乎没有从这个角度写的。研究往往局限于个别戏剧（Simmonds，1992和Saval，2014）或局限于单一方面（纽曼，2019和罗伯茨，2016）。我查阅了迄今为止170多本书和文章，没有发现任何广泛的研究，尤其是将文本分析与以实践为导向的原始材料调查相结合的研究。在我的硕士学位课程中，我一直着迷于莎士比亚使用与金属和珠宝有关的语言，以及频繁引用现代观众基本上失去的分析。在我分析的41个剧本中，适用于分析过程的关键词出现了1,312次。黄金作为一种贵金属经常被用来描述皇室;但也有一个经常的，负面的联想与镀金，反映了技术应用薄层的黄金银，或在伪造的情况下，贱金属，以愚弄买家。莎士比亚用这种语言来表达性格特征，并探讨有关虚假，腐败，愚弄和伪装的想法。