Material Grief: Death and the Centrality of Objects in Early Modern Drama

物质悲伤：死亡和早期现代戏剧中物体的中心地位

• 批准号: 2445264
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 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-2445264
• 关键词: Material; Grief; Death; Centrality; Objects

This thesis will investigate a range of theatrical manifestations of 'feminine' violence in Jacobean Revenge Tragedy, with three principal aims:1) To develop a taxonomy of the paradoxes of representing femininity in the Early Modern theatre. Namely, to question how the drama presents and/ or attempts to reconcile representations of theatrically active women with idealised definitions of the feminine as passive, static, and relegated to domestic spaces. In doing so, I seek to put particular pressure on the sustained cultural contradiction by which women are consistently associated with theatricality, and yet barred from appearing on the stage.2) To use the presentation of acts of violence associated with women as a case study, in order to elucidate particular anxieties surrounding the ontology of bodies and bodily integrity, the nature of agency, and the question of what distinguishes human subjects from materialobjects.3) To theorise as to why drama (and especially female figures in this drama) provided a particularly apt medium for consolidating and exploring cultural anxieties and paradoxes. In this, the project will explore how dramatic texts enter into a reciprocal relationship with other contemporary texts, art-objects and cultural artefacts, which often make sustained analogical reference to the theatre (in particular, emblem books, anti-cosmetic treatises, protestant polemics, anatomical discourse, and memento mori traditions).

本论文将考察雅各布复仇悲剧中女性暴力的一系列戏剧表现，主要目的有三：1)对早期现代戏剧中表现女性气质的悖论进行分类。也就是说，质疑这部剧如何呈现和/或试图调和戏剧性活跃的女性的表现与对女性的理想化定义，即被动、静止和被贬低到家庭空间。在这样做的过程中，我试图对持续存在的文化矛盾施加特别的压力，在这种矛盾中，女性一直与戏剧性联系在一起，但却被禁止出现在舞台上。2)将与女性有关的暴力行为的呈现作为案例研究，以阐明围绕身体和身体完整性的本体论、中介的性质以及人类主体与物质对象的区别的问题的特别焦虑。3)从理论上解释为什么戏剧(尤其是这部戏剧中的女性人物)提供了一个特别适合巩固和探索文化焦虑和悖论的媒介。在这个项目中，该项目将探索戏剧文本如何与其他当代文本、艺术品和文化手工艺品进入一种相互关系，这些文物经常与戏剧进行持续的类比(特别是徽章书籍、反整容论文、新教论战、解剖话语和纪念森里传统)。