셰익스피어 희극에 나타난 여성 익살꾼 연구: 「윈저의 즐거운 아낙네들」을 중심으로
The Study of Female Jesters in Shakespeare’s Comedies: The Merry Wives of Windsor
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This article explores the role and function of female jesters in Shakespeare’s comedies in terms of transformation and carnivalesque laughter. Through a detailed analysis of two female jesters such as Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600), the article shows how female characters in a play successively illuminate their subversive and carnivalesque roles of jesters in a rigid Elizabethan society with stringent control and hierarchy, refusing accusation of being called as a “shrew” or a “scold” for their daring wit and verbal shrewdness. Revolting against being confined to obedient, passive, and chaste female roles, these unruly women choose to experience subversive alterations of class and sexual identities. By imposing cross-dressing and temporary transformation on male characters during the play, the female characters encourage them to expose the artfulness and absurdness of rigid sexual dichotomy in a patriarchy society and reconstruct true sexual identities. Through their public shaming on transgressed male characters due to their uncontrolled jealousy and sexual desire, these female jesters powerfully display the ambiguous and dynamic characteristics of play by integrating them with the carnivalesque energy of laughter.
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This article explores the role and function of female jesters in Shakespeare’s comedies in terms of transformation and carnivalesque laughter. Through a detailed analysis of two female jesters such as Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1600), the article shows how female characters in a play successively illuminate their subversive and carnivalesque roles of jesters in a rigid Elizabethan society with stringent control and hierarchy, refusing accusation of being called as a “shrew” or a “scold” for their daring wit and verbal shrewdness. Revolting against being confined to obedient, passive, and chaste female roles, these unruly women choose to experience subversive alterations of class and sexual identities. By imposing cross-dressing and temporary transformation on male characters during the play, the female characters encourage them to expose the artfulness and absurdness of rigid sexual dichotomy in a patriarchy society and reconstruct true sexual identities. Through their public shaming on transgressed male characters due to their uncontrolled jealousy and sexual desire, these female jesters powerfully display the ambiguous and dynamic characteristics of play by integrating them with the carnivalesque energy of laughter.
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