【作者】 刘萍；

【导师】 郭方云；

【作者基本信息】 西南大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2017， 硕士

【摘要】 不列颠统一民族的形成历经了一个曲折而漫长的历史过程。1603年,随着詹姆士一世登上英格兰王位、实现王位联合,不列颠民族整合成为了新的历史潮流,而各王国反对联合进程、追求独立王国身份的声音则被历史边缘化。王国独立身份与国家统一的矛盾随之成为政治讽刺和文学书写所关注的历史话题,在《辛白林》一剧中就存在书写这一矛盾的政治话语,同时莎士比亚也借由该剧暗示出英格兰本位主义意识在这一矛盾关系中的重要作用。本研究将《辛白林》置于不列颠统一民族建构的历史语境中,以新历史主义的“话语流通”、“历史文本”、“文本历史”等概念为理论视角,梳理出剧中书写威尔士、苏格兰、英格兰三王国的独立王国身份与不列颠国家整合这一矛盾的历史文本和文学文本,以及剧中对英格兰本位主义在这一矛盾问题中的作用的投射。本文试图通过这一分析来揭示《辛白林》的悲剧发展与最终和解实际上是英格兰本位主义话语下莎士比亚对平衡王国身份独特性与统一不列颠性之间的矛盾的想象性干预。本文除序言和结论外,主体部分包括三章。序言部分概述了本研究的理论视角、研究中心以及主旨内容,并指出《辛白林》作为文本历史的重要性以及当前国内外研究成果与不足。第一章,通过梳理威尔士在不列颠国家整合中的历史,指出《辛白林》当中以威尔士为背景场所的戏剧线实则为威尔士逐步并入英格兰王国的历史投射。威尔士王国身份危机与英格兰本位主义观念的作用在威尔士的英格兰化进程中得以体现。第二章,通过分析《辛白林》中隐喻普修默斯的苏格兰身份的文本,揭示出在詹姆士一世提出整合英格兰与苏格兰王国的历史背景下,苏格兰独立王国身份被边缘化。同时指出剧中书写英格兰与苏格兰之间的对立情绪和矛盾关系的政治话语。普修默斯与辛白林的最终和解暗示,英、苏的矛盾关系最终因维护以詹姆士一世政权为核心的统一国家利益而得以解决。第三章,通过分析伊丽莎白与詹姆士的君王身份在辛白林以及王后的统治者形象上的隐喻投射,指出以辛白林宫廷为中心的戏剧发展实则书写了英格兰从伊丽莎白统治过渡到詹姆士一世王权过程中英格兰独立王国身份的逐渐消解,以及英格兰国家身份从“英格兰性”向“不列颠性”的历史转变。同时,辛白林对罗马的屈服与和解暗示了詹姆士一世的和平外交政策以及其实现不列颠和平治世的愿望。本文结论认为,通过解读《辛白林》所书写的三王国身份建构历史,可以发现莎士比亚的政治寓言是对王国身份独特性与不列颠同一性两者之间矛盾关系的探索和想象性干预。从三个王国的历史身份和民族关系角度来看《辛白林》,其团聚与和解的戏剧结尾实际上是莎士比亚对詹姆士一世的统一构想与和平政策的复调式书写。同时,本文揭示《辛白林》中的不列颠历史与莎士比亚的历史都具有英格兰本位主义倾向。更多还原

【Abstract】 The formation of British national consolidation has experienced a long and tortuous process.In 1603,King James I came to the crown of England and proclaimed Union of the Crowns,which indicates that the British national integration became the new historical tendency.And debate on the Union and quest for national independence of the three kingdoms were marginalized by the orthodox history.Consequently,the topical concern of the tension between the separate and distinct national identities of the three kingdoms and the British national consolidation was the general motif of political satire and literary creation.Cymbeline is found to have the political discourse of this historical topic,and by circulating it on the stage Shakespeare implies the crucial role of the Anglocentric consciousness among the tension between the separate and distinct national identities of the three kingdoms and the British national consolidation.By placing Cymbeline in the historical context in which British national consolidation was formed,this thesis tries to point out the historical text and literary text that elaborate the tension of the formation of distinct national identities of Wales,Scotland and England with the implementation of British national consolidation,and observes the impacts of Anglocentrism on this national issue,with the concepts of “Circulation of Discourse”,“the Textuality of History” and “the Historicity of Text” of the new historicism as the theoretical perspective.Accordingly,it reveals that,in the light of the Anglocentric discourse,the tragic development and conciliatory ending allude to Shakespeare’s imaginative intervention into the political idea of reconciling the confrontations between the maintenance of national distinctiveness and the implementation of unified “Britishness”.Apart from the Introduction and Conclusion,the main part of this thesis consists of three chapters.In Introduction,the theoretical perspective,essential issues and main content is summarized.Additionally,the importance of Cymbeline as historical text and the achievements and shortage of the domestic and overseas studies on it are noted.In the first chapter,by observing the role of Wales in the history of British national consolidation,the dramatic plot with Wales as its central setting,which alludes to the historical reflection of Wales incorporating into the Kingdom of England,is pointed out.The crisis of Welsh national identity and the impacts of Anglocentrism are embodied in the text of narrating the anglicizing process of Wales.By exploring the subtext of Posthumus’ s Scottish identity in Cymbeline,Chapter Two reveals that the marginalized identity of Scotland as an independent nation resulted from James I’s project of the Union of England and Scotland.Meanwhile,it also talks about Shakespeare’s political allusion to the antagonism and confrontations between England and Scotland.The reunion of Posthumus with Cymbeline indicates that the contradiction is eventually settled down in the name of realizing the general and common interests of James’ s “Great Britain”.Chapter Three demonstrates that the story line centering on Cymbeline’s court remarks the national narrative of the deconstruction of the English national identity in the transitional period from the Elizabethan era to the Jacobean age,by virtue of examining the metaphorical projection of the rulership of Elizabeth and James on the monarchical images of Cymbeline and the Queen.It also implies the historical change of English national identity from “Englishness” to “Britishness”.Moreover,Cymbeline’s submission to and reconciliation with Rome evokes James’ s foreign policy of peace and his aspiration for the realization of pax Britannica.This thesis concludes that,in the light of the national narrative of forming the national identities of the three kingdoms,Shakespeare’s political allegory shows a significant attempt and an imaginative intervention to reveal the contradictions between the national distinctiveness of the three kingdoms and the British unification.Considering the historical identities and national relations of the three kingdoms,the final reunion and reconciliation of Cymbeline embodies Shakespeare’s polyphonical demonstration of James’ s proposition of “Great Britain” and his foreign policy of peace.Furthermore,it claims that both the British historiography and Shakespeare’s histories in Cymbeline have a tinge of Anglocentrism.更多还原