Silencing Isabella, Sensing Isabella’s Body in Measure for Measure
1
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
Isabella’s silence in the final scene of Measure for Measure opens up various readings and performance possibilities, and has framed interpretations of her overall character. Her character embodies a Protestant dilemma: how to engage traditional conceptions of female sacredness, sacred corporeality, and visual representations of the sacred when these conceptions had become oxymoronic in a reformed religio-cultural context. This essay discusses the ways in which Isabella is tamed into a mute picture of Protestant female ideal that resonates with her initial oath to be silent when showing her face. No matter what role she chooses, nun or wife, her body is restricted, and her senses are under control. The play, however, gives Isabella a chance to prolong the interim period before she commits herself to any kind of bondage. In that moment of pause, she achieves a certain kind of sacredness of inaccessible interiority, simultaneously transitory and timeless.
Abstract
Isabella’s silence in the final scene of Measure for Measure opens up various readings and performance possibilities, and has framed interpretations of her overall character. Her character embodies a Protestant dilemma: how to engage traditional conceptions of female sacredness, sacred corporeality, and visual representations of the sacred when these conceptions had become oxymoronic in a reformed religio-cultural context. This essay discusses the ways in which Isabella is tamed into a mute picture of Protestant female ideal that resonates with her initial oath to be silent when showing her face. No matter what role she chooses, nun or wife, her body is restricted, and her senses are under control. The play, however, gives Isabella a chance to prolong the interim period before she commits herself to any kind of bondage. In that moment of pause, she achieves a certain kind of sacredness of inaccessible interiority, simultaneously transitory and timeless.
참고문헌 (19)
- Aebischer, Pascale, "Silence, Rape and Politics in Measure for Measure: Close Readings in Theatre History", Shakespeare Bulletin, 26(4), pp.1~23 (2008)
- Archer, Ian W, "The Pursuit of Stability : Social Relations in Elizabethan London" (2002), Cambridge UP
- Dessen, Alan C, "A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580–1642" (1999), Cambridge UP
- Diehl, Houston, "‘Infinite Space’ : Representation and Reformation in Measure for Measure", Shakespeare Quarterly, 49(4), pp.393~410 (1998)
- Diehl, Houston, "Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage : Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England" (1997), Cornell UP
- Friedman, Michael D, "‘O, let him marry her!’ : Matrimony and Recompense in Measure for Measure", Shakespeare Quarterly, 46(4), pp.454~464 (1995)
- Gurr, Andrew, "Measure for Measure’s Hoods and Masks : The Duke, Isabella, and Liberty", ELR, 27(1), pp.89~105 (1997)
- Korda, Natasha, "Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England", pp.137~161 (2004), U of Toronto P
- Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A., "Mapping Gendered Routes and Spaces in the Early Modern World" (2015), Ashgate
- Levine, Caroline, "Forms : Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network" (2015), Princeton UP
- McIntyre, Jean, "Costumes and Scripts om the Elizabethan Theatres" (1992), U of Alberta P
- Rapatz, Vanessa L., "Convents and Novices in Early Modern English Dramatic Works" (2020), Medieval Institute Publications
- Reigle, Kimberly, "Staging the Convent as Resistance in The Jew of Malta and Measure for Measure", Comparative Drama, 46(4), pp.497~516 (2012)
- Shakespeare, William, "Measure for Measure" (2008), Arden Shakespeare
- Shakespeare, William, "Measure for Measure: The New Cambridge Shakespeare" (1991), Cambridge UP
- Shakespeare, William, "Measure for Measure: Texts and Contexts", pp.2004, Bedford
- Shakespeare, William, "The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition" (1997), W. W. Norton
- Stjerna, Kirsi, "Women and the Reformation" (2009), Wiley-Blackwell
- Strier, Richard, "Shakespeare and Religious Change", pp.17~36 (2009), Palgrave Macmillan