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Conflicts of interest: Friendship and love in medieval and Renaissance English literature. The case of 'The Knight's Tale' and 'The Two Noble Kinsmen'.

机译:利益冲突:中世纪和文艺复兴时期英国文学中的友谊和爱情。 “骑士的故事”和“两个贵族亲戚”的情况。

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This dissertation explores the conflict for priority between two ideals of human affection---virtuous male friendship and passionate heterosexual love---as a means of better understanding two versions of a single archetypical story of male rivalry: Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, and William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen . Chaucer and his successors treat the conflict between love and friendship in very different ways. In The Knight's Tale, Chaucer's primary concern is the relationship of love to Fortune, but he also makes a significant addition to his source in Boccaccio: the juxtaposition of love and friendship that will become a major theme in later English literature. By 1613, when Shakespeare and Fletcher wrote their play, the classic love triangle of Palamon, Arcite, and Emily had evolved from a romance on the themes of love, Fortune, and free will into a theatrical conflict between "platonic" male friendship and overwhelming sexual desire. In addition to expanding the role of friendship, the playwrights amplify Chaucer's portrayal of passion as a de-humanizing force. Shakespeare and Fletcher thus offer a much darker vision of the human condition than Chaucer, who himself is more pessimistic than Boccaccio. Tracing its themes through medieval romances of friendship, Renaissance Ciceronianism, and the Elizabethan court drama of John Lyly, "Conflicts of Interest" charts a movement from guardedly optimistic philosophical romance to deeply pessimistic tragicomedy.
机译:本论文探讨了人类情感的两种理想之间的优先冲突-善良的男性友谊和热情的异性恋爱-作为更好地理解男性对抗的单一原型故事的两个版本的手段:杰弗里·乔uc的《骑士的故事》和威廉莎士比亚和约翰弗莱彻的“两位高贵的亲戚”。乔uc及其继任者以截然不同的方式对待爱与友谊之间的冲突。在《骑士的故事》中,乔uc最关心的是爱与财富的关系,但他在Boccaccio的著作中也做了重要的补充:爱与友谊的并置将成为后来英国文学的主要主题。到1613年,当莎士比亚和弗莱彻撰写剧本时,帕拉蒙,阿奇特和艾米丽的经典三角恋人已经从关于爱情,财富和自由意志的浪漫故事演变成一场“柏拉图式”男性友谊与压倒性的戏剧冲突性欲。这些剧作家除了扩大友谊的作用外,还扩大了乔uc对激情的描绘,因为激情是一种非人性化的力量。因此,莎士比亚和弗莱彻对人类状况的看法比乔uc(Chaucer)要暗得多,乔uc本人比博卡乔更悲观。通过中世纪的友情浪漫,文艺复兴时期的西塞罗尼亚主义和约翰·利利的伊丽莎白女王的戏剧戏剧来追寻主题,“利益冲突”描绘了从谨慎乐观的哲学浪漫主义到悲观悲剧悲剧的趋势。

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  • 作者

    Stretter, Robert Eugene.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Virginia.;

  • 授予单位 University of Virginia.;
  • 学科 Literature English.;Theater.;Literature Medieval.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2000
  • 页码 250 p.
  • 总页数 250
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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