A Sociocultural Study on Representations of the Mediterranean World in the English Renaissance Drama

这个项目的目的是考察早期现代英语戏剧中地中海世界的戏剧表现，从当代诗意想象和其他方面的跨文化谈判的角度。这项研究的范围扩大到包括小亚细亚、非洲地中海沿岸和西班牙伊比利亚半岛等偏远地区。推而广之，不仅犹太人，而且摩尔人的表现和他们在英国文艺复兴戏剧中的问题剥削，已经成为与旧世界中的其他人和殖民西方娱乐的新世界的形象相关的审查主题。在与都柏林大学学院的珍妮特·克莱尔博士讨论相关主题时，我在巴伦西亚举行的第七届世界莎士比亚大会上共同主持了题为《西班牙与早期现代戏剧》的研讨会。随着大会的召开，我的论文《铭刻他人。夏洛克再考虑》发表在《莎士比亚的研究机会》(京都：关海资藏，2000年)上。本文从威尼斯、排外的伦敦和犹太人之间的三角关系来探讨文艺复兴时期的反犹太主义。我在莎士比亚的下一篇文章《啊怪物！怪物！：奥赛罗和看不见的他者》[重读莎士比亚](东京：Kenkyusha，2001)中发展了这个主题，在这篇文章中，我研究了表达和抹杀边缘文化的戏剧性修辞，这反过来又为莎士比亚的欧洲中心历史提供了一般的信息。我的项目成功地为英国文艺复兴时期戏剧中地中海世界的戏剧表现带来了新的社会文化影响。

The aim of this project was to examine theatrical representations of the Mediterranean world in the early modem English drama in terms of the saciocultural negotiations of the contemporary poetic imaginations and the Other. The scope of the study extended to include such remote areas as Asia Minor, the Mediterranean coast of Africa and the Spanish Iberian Peninsula. By the extension, representations of not only Jewish people but the Moors and their problematic exploitation in the English Renaissance drama have become topics under examination in relation to the Other in the Old World and the images of the New World entertained by the colonial West. Treating the related subject with Dr Janet Clare of University College Dublin, I co-lead the seminar 'Spain and Early Modem Drama' at the Seventh World Shakespeare Congress in Valencia. Along with the Congress, my paper 'Inscribing the Other. Shylock Reconsidered' was published in Shakespeare wo Manabu Hito no Tameni [Research Opportunities for Shakespeare] (Kyoto : Sekai Shiso-sha, 2000). The essay discusses the Renaissance anti-Semitism in terms of the triangular relationship of Venice, the xenophobic London and the Jew. I developed the theme in my next essay 'O Monstrous! Monstrous! : Othello and the Invisible Other', Shakespeare wo Yominaosu [Re-reading Shakespeare] (Tokyo : Kenkyusha, 2001), in which I examined the theatrical rhetoric of expressing and erasing of the marginal culture, which in its turn informed the Eurocentric history of Shakespeariana in general. My project successfully shed new light on the sociocultural bearing on theatrical representations of the Mediterranean world in the English Renaissance drama.