You have beguiled me with a counterfeit': The Hallmark of Truth and the Exposure of Artifice in Shakespeare's Work

这个项目是一个跨学科的方法来检查莎士比亚的欺骗和伪装的语言，通过与金属、珠宝、硬币、分析（测试）、标记和伪造有关的图像来表达，并通过材料制造来展示。在金匠公司分析办公室（GCAO）的支持下，莎士比亚学院（SI）和伯明翰珠宝学院（SofJ）建立了合作关系，结合了密切的文本分析、背景和历史研究以及广泛的原创实践主导的调查，将从金匠或分析者的角度为莎士比亚的词汇提供一个新的、有意义的背景。丰富了近代早期物质文化领域的学术研究。关于莎士比亚作品中具有欺骗性的外表，人们写了很多，但几乎没有人从这个观点出发。研究往往局限于个别戏剧（Simmonds， 1992和Saval， 2014）或局限于单一方面（Newman， 2019和Roberts， 2016）。迄今为止，在对170多本书籍和文章的回顾中，我没有发现广泛的研究，更没有发现将文本分析与原始实践主导的材料调查相结合的研究。在攻读硕士学位的过程中，我一直着迷于莎士比亚对金属和珠宝相关语言的使用，以及他经常提到的分析，而这些在现代观众中基本上是缺失的。适用于分析过程的关键词在我分析的41个油气藏中出现1312次。黄金作为一种高贵的金属，经常被用来形容皇室；但镀金也有一种常规的负面联系，反映了在白银上涂上薄层黄金的技术，或者在伪造的情况下，在贱金属上涂上薄层黄金，以欺骗买家。莎士比亚用这种语言来表达人物特征，并探索关于虚假、腐败、愚弄和伪装的想法。

This project is an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of Shakespeare's language of deception and disguise, expressed through imagery relating to metal, jewellery, coins, assaying (testing), hallmarking and counterfeiting and demonstrated through material fabrication. A combination of close textual analysis, contextual and historical research and extensive original practices-led investigations - facilitated by creating a partnership between the Shakespeare Institute (SI) and the Birmingham School of Jewellery (SofJ), supported by the Goldsmiths' Company Assay Office (GCAO) - will provide a new, material context for Shakespeare's vocabulary from the point of view of the goldsmith or assayer, enriching academic scholarship in the field of early modern material culture.Much has been written about deceptive appearances in Shakespeare, but almost nothing has been written from this standpoint. Studies tend to be limited to individual plays (Simmonds, 1992 and Saval, 2014) or confined to a single aspect (Newman, 2019 and Roberts, 2016). In a review of more than 170 books and articles to date, I have found no wide-ranging study, least of all one that combines textual analysis with original practices-led material investigation.Throughout my Masters, I have been fascinated by Shakespeare's use of language relating to metal and jewellery, and the frequent references to assaying that are largely lost on a modern-day audience. Key words applicable to the assaying process appear 1,312 times in the 41 plays that I have analysed. Gold as a noble metal is frequently used to describe royalty; but there is also a regular, negative association with gilding that reflects the technique of applying thin layers of gold to silver, or in the case of counterfeiting, to base metal, in order to fool the buyer. Shakespeare uses this language to express character traits and to explore ideas around falseness, corruption, fooling and disguise.