Shakespeare's Sea and the Frontier of Knowledge

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2019-05-27 DOI:10.1353/SEL.2019.0019

J. Sell

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Abstract

Abstract:In an age of discovery, the ocean voyage pushed back frontiers of the knowable, thereby providing a master trope for knowledge acquisition that, in Shakespeare, authorized the rupture of conventional dramatic form. This article charts the progress of that rupture and the corresponding enlistment of the audience's imaginative cooperation to complete the dramatic illusion. It then considers the kinds of knowledge attainable to those who cross the sea in Shakespeare's dramaturgy and ends by suggesting that as increasingly sophisticated staging facilitated the theatrical representation of wonders, the ocean voyage trope comes to portend a drama where material spectacle would unseat imagination.

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莎士比亚的海洋和知识的前沿

摘要:在一个大发现的时代，海洋航行将未知的疆界推后，从而为知识获取提供了一个主要的比喻，在莎士比亚的作品中，这种比喻授权打破传统的戏剧形式。这篇文章描绘了这种断裂的过程，以及观众想象力合作的相应征集，以完成戏剧幻觉。然后，它考虑了莎士比亚戏剧中那些漂洋过海的人所能获得的各种知识，最后提出，随着越来越复杂的舞台设计促进了对奇观的戏剧表现，海洋航行的比喻预示着，在戏剧中，物质奇观将取代想象力。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.