Modern performance reception of Ovidian scenes of sexual violence

西方世界有将针对女性的暴力审美化的历史，奥维德很可能被认为是这一现象的创始人之一。扎克伯格(2018)证明了这一点，揭露了一个厌恶女性的在线社区如何盗用经典文本，特别是奥维德的经典文本，以使网络暴力行为合法化。莫拉莱斯(2020)也认识到古典文学和性别暴力之间的联系，最近探索了古典文学如何被用来抗议强奸文化，并为被边缘化的人提供了新的叙事。在#MeToo时代，这种担忧比以往任何时候都更加明显。戏剧从业者也对此感兴趣，批评暴力美学和窥探观众行为的表演有所增加。作为学科的古典文学和戏剧学开始认识到这些紧迫的问题。但到目前为止，学术界还没有对这一问题进行过系统的探讨，尤其是对古典文本的演奏方面的研究更是如此。我的研究将缩小这一差距，因为我考察了现代表演对奥维迪亚性暴力场景的接受，特别是从《变形记》中，也包括奥维德更广泛的语料库。我将考虑现代表演如何以及可能上演强奸场景，以及奥维迪亚文本如何吸引表演改编和抵制接受，从而听到女性的声音，拒绝传统的男性凝视。业界对这一领域的兴趣和学术差距使这一项目非常及时。但此外，我的研究应该是所有人共同关心的问题。

The Western world has a history of aestheticizing violence against women, and Ovid could well be considered one of the founding fathers of this phenomenon. Zuckerberg (2018) proved this in exposing how an online community of misogynists have appropriated classical texts, particularly those of Ovid, to legitimise acts of online violence. Morales (2020) too has recognised the link between Classics and gendered violence and recently explored how Classics have been used to protest rape culture and offer new narratives for the marginalised. In the #MeToo era, this concern is more evident than ever before. Theatre practitioners are also interested in this, and there has been a rise in performances which critique aesthetics of violence and voyeuristic spectatorship. Classics and Theatre Studies, as disciplines, are beginning to recognise these urgent concerns. But the subject has not been explored systematically to date by existing scholarship, and especially not in relation to performance of Classical texts. My research will narrow this gap, as I examine the modern performance reception of Ovidian scenes of sexual violence, particularly from the Metamorphoses but also Ovid's wider corpus. I will consider how modern performances do and might stage rape scenes and how the Ovidian text invites both performative adaptation and a resistant reception, whereby the female voice is heard and the traditional male gaze is rejected. The industry interest and the scholarly gap in this area makes this a timely project. But furthermore, my research should be a common concern to all.