浪漫的游戏--论莎士比亚的喜剧精神

莎士比亚的喜剧精神实质上是一种游戏精神,其喜剧性根源主要是游戏的狂欢与解脱.在其早期喜剧中浪漫的爱情游戏是主题,喜剧人物以游戏者群体形象出现,遵循的是快乐原则.而现实精神亦时时闪现在他的喜剧中.当现实精神取代游戏精神成为其创作的主旨时,莎士比亚便由喜剧创作转入悲剧创作.

Romantic Play--On Shakespear's spirit of comedy

Shakespear's spirit of comedy actually is a kind of spirit of play.The quality of his early comedies in which romantic love plays make up themes root in the revelry and freedom of play.The characters who act according to the principle of happiness in these comedies just act as the colony figures.On the other hand,the spirit of reality frequently flashes in his comedies.When the spirit of reality took the part of the spirit of play and dominated his works,Shakespear had to write tragidies rather than comedies.