A Study of Garden Scenes in English Renaissance Plays

通过对早期现代英语戏剧文本的研究，我收集了一些园林场景。有趣的是，发现在这些花园场景中发生的大多数事件可以分为以下5种：a.浪漫的邂逅; B.亲密谈话和保密谈话; c.冥想; d.窃听; e.很明显，莎士比亚和他的同时代人在写戏剧的时候，他们的脑海里就有了传统的花园观念和形象，这些观念和形象是通过各种文学和文化传统传达给他们的。口头上提到花园可以在舞台上创造一种特殊的气氛，将舞台空间变成一个私人的，安静的，但潜在的脆弱的地方。花园的设置可以增强场景的秘密，浪漫，冥想或不祥的情绪。然而，即使对话中没有具体提到花园的环境，场景的地点也可能以某种非语言的方式间接地暗示出来。这个舞台的结构对于布置花园场景很有用。如果指定，舞台门，舞台阳台，窗帘空间和舞台柱可以作为花园门，花园上方的窗户，拱门和树木。

Through examining early modem English play texts, I have collected garden scenes. It is interesting to discover that most events taking place in these garden scenes can be divided into the following 5 kinds: a. romantic encounters; b. intimate talks and confidential conversations; c. melancholic meditations; d. eavesdropping; e. intrusion.Clearly, while writing plays, Shakespeare and his contemporaries had in their minds the traditional idea and image of the garden that had been mediated to them through a variety of literary and cultural traditions.A close analysis of these garden scenes has shown the following important things about their staging.1. A verbal reference to a garden could create a particular atmosphere on the stage, transforming the stage space into a private, quiet, but potentially vulnerable place.2. The garden setting could enhance the secret, romantic, meditative, or ominous mood of the scene.3. Even if, however, the dialogue includes no specific reference to the garden setting, the scene's locality might somehow be suggested indirectly by non-verbal means.4. The structure of the stage was useful for staging garden scenes. If designated, a stage door, the stage balcony, the curtained space, and the stage posts could serve variously as the garden door, a window over the garden, an arbour, and trees.