타자 주인공과 영국 르네상스 비극
Protagonist ‘Other’ and English Renaissance Tragedy
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We can find lots of ‘Other’ characters in English Renaissance dramas including Shakespeare’s and Marlowe’s. In case of Shakespeare, most plays except English histories have settings of foreign countries such as Italia, Denmark, France, Scotland, and strange islands. Other Jacobean playwrights also set the background their plays on foreign countries. What is remarkable is that comedies and morality plays usually have the setting of London, while tragedies mostly deal with foreign societies. This implies that tragedies represent reality and include much stronger political desires. The sufferings and destructions of ‘other’ heros of tragedy usually result from the challenge and violation of established social order. It seems that the tragedies consolidate conservative perspective in the sense that destruction of the protagonist is the result of his violation of ruling order. But the behaviors of violation itself also has powerful effects on the audience. The foreign protagonist makes it possible for the playwright to express the violation and resistance more freely. We can resume easily that ‘Other’ being in the foreign background has close relationship to ‘Other’ being in England. We should notice that the main action of the tragic ‘Other’ in renaissance tragedies usually takes the form of revenge, challenge, and criticism of the prejudice against ‘Other.’ Marlowe’s Barabas takes revenge on the governor of Malta who forfeited all his property based on the religious prejudice. Shakespeare’s Othello takes the form of challenge against the white-centered society by marrying a beautiful white aristocratic girl. Webster’s Duchess of Malfi violates the ruling order of male-centered society. These dramatic forms of Other’s individual success seems to undergo the inevitable destruction as a result of punishment. But behind the surface we can find the problems of the dominant social order by showing the hypocrisy and wickedness of the oppressing group. Therefore ‘Other’ tragedies of English renaissance age becomes an effective means of revealing the subversive desire of the prejudiced and distorted ruling order.
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We can find lots of ‘Other’ characters in English Renaissance dramas including Shakespeare’s and Marlowe’s. In case of Shakespeare, most plays except English histories have settings of foreign countries such as Italia, Denmark, France, Scotland, and strange islands. Other Jacobean playwrights also set the background their plays on foreign countries. What is remarkable is that comedies and morality plays usually have the setting of London, while tragedies mostly deal with foreign societies. This implies that tragedies represent reality and include much stronger political desires. The sufferings and destructions of ‘other’ heros of tragedy usually result from the challenge and violation of established social order. It seems that the tragedies consolidate conservative perspective in the sense that destruction of the protagonist is the result of his violation of ruling order. But the behaviors of violation itself also has powerful effects on the audience. The foreign protagonist makes it possible for the playwright to express the violation and resistance more freely. We can resume easily that ‘Other’ being in the foreign background has close relationship to ‘Other’ being in England. We should notice that the main action of the tragic ‘Other’ in renaissance tragedies usually takes the form of revenge, challenge, and criticism of the prejudice against ‘Other.’ Marlowe’s Barabas takes revenge on the governor of Malta who forfeited all his property based on the religious prejudice. Shakespeare’s Othello takes the form of challenge against the white-centered society by marrying a beautiful white aristocratic girl. Webster’s Duchess of Malfi violates the ruling order of male-centered society. These dramatic forms of Other’s individual success seems to undergo the inevitable destruction as a result of punishment. But behind the surface we can find the problems of the dominant social order by showing the hypocrisy and wickedness of the oppressing group. Therefore ‘Other’ tragedies of English renaissance age becomes an effective means of revealing the subversive desire of the prejudiced and distorted ruling order.
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