As You Like It: The Outlaw Court
As You Like It: The Outlaw Court
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如你所愿：法外法庭
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-349-20881-4_6
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发表时间：
1990
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通讯作者：
John Turner
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作者：
G. Holderness;Nick Potter;John Turner
为了充实我们对戏剧的“可能性条件”的感觉，考虑它的场合往往是一个好处。在一篇挑衅性的文章中，伦纳德·坦南豪斯为这种思考提供了一个起点，因为他暗示他感兴趣的戏剧有一个功能。他从展示权力的相互作用来解释这种功能，这使戏剧几乎具有仪式的性质。Tennenhouse认为他在戏剧中看到的权力交易有一种说明或解释的功能，为了展示，揭示和给人留下深刻印象而展示。这些戏剧几乎是庄严的表演，展现了伊丽莎白时代社会中权力交易中特别棘手的时刻，为这些时刻的成功谈判提供了画面，但在分析中揭示了实现这一目标的技巧。不难看出，戏剧如何变得类似于，比如说，一种王室活动，比如加冕典礼，一种社会仪式，通过这种仪式，某种意义得以确立。这样的仪式显示了他们的作用。在《威尼斯商人》的最后一幕中，鲍西娅告诉安东尼奥他的三艘“大帆船”已经“安全靠岸”，他对这一幕的处理很好地说明了这种方法。他认为这代表着将暂时被波西亚篡夺的父权交还给安东尼奥。
It is often an advantage, in order to fill out our sense of a play’s ‘conditions of possibility’, to consider its occasion. In a provocative essay, Leonard Tennenhouse offers a starting point for such a consideration, because he implies that the plays in which he is interested have a function.4He explains this function in terms of a display of interactions of power which give the plays an almost ritual quality. Tennenhouse supposes that the transactions of power which he sees encoded in the drama have a kind of illustrative or explanatory function, displaying in order to show, to reveal, and to impress. The plays are almost solemn enactments of particularly tricky moments in the transactions of power within Elizabethan society, serving to offer pictures of the successful negotiations of such moments, but revealing under analysis the sleight of hand by which this has been accomplished. It is not difficult to see how the plays might come to resemble, say, a royal function, such as a Coronation, a social ritual by means of which a meaning is established. Such rituals show what they do. His treatment of the moment in the last act ofThe Merchant of Venicewhen Portia tells Antonio that three of his ‘argosies’ are ‘safely come to port’ is a fair illustration of the method. He argues that this represents a handing back to Antonio of a patriarchal power temporarily usurped by Portia.