在欧洲宗教改革语境中，英国与罗马教廷势不两立，英国剧作家通过戏剧创作参与宗教论战，君王利用剧院舞台宣扬新教主张以构建民族国家，观众在观看戏剧表演过程中实现国家认同。戏剧《哈姆雷特》、《西班牙悲剧》、《马尔菲公爵夫人》等谴责天主教偶像崇拜和圣餐仪式，使用新教的宗教隐喻和见证手法，以树敌方式推进国民的民族身份建设。%In the context of European Reformation, England and Vatican opposed to each other.English playwrights participated in religious debate by writing plays, monarchs propagated Protestantism to con-struct political nation by theatrical stage, and audiences fulfilled state identification through watching plays.Such plays as Hamlet, The Spanish Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi, condemned Catholic idola-try and Eucharist ritual by using Protestant religious metaphor and witnessing device.In binary opposi-tion, those plays pushed forward the identity construction of the whole nation.
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