Shakespeare와 Racine의 比較硏究 = The Comparative Study between Shakespeare and Racine

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

English dramatic literature is dominated by Shakespeare as well as French dramatic literature is enriched by both Molie、re and Racine pleased with Corneille's ground-workings. It is almost natural that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind; in French tragedy Racing has been the object of almost universal admiration as a most consummate master among all the writers of his race.
The comparisons between Shakespeare an Recino have been traced in contrasting and parallel tendencies by many scholars and critics from the seventeenth century critics onward in England, the Continent and other English speaking countries. The comparison is particularly interesting because the two writers, while almost shared with the same passage of the era, yet offer some clearly marked contrasts in treatment of characters they deal with. The plays of Shakespeare are crammed full and running over with the multifarious activities of humun existance, persons of every rank and every occupation, as have been noted by Coleridge with the applause, "our myriadminded Shakespeare." Turning to Racine, his most striking characters are women: Andromaque, Athalie, Hermione, Monime, Phe、dre, Roxane. His tragedies depicted the passions; but love and women in his plays are subversive and anti-social forces, leading not to heroism but to forgetfulness of duty, unhappiness, and crime.
The works of both playwrights which I deal with in this paper are concerned with pairs of lovers placed in the highest position of splendour and power-generals, princesses, emperors and the like, but there is a clearly marked division between the works of both writers. Shakespeare's characters are under the custom of putting man over woman; Racine's are in reverse order, the predominance of fair sex above man. Shakespeare's shows us how he carries out the predominace of man over woman by taking the plays such as a Midsummer Nigh's Dream, The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew, while Racine's characters in the predominance of woman above man have been presented to us with these plays―Andromaque, Brit-anicus, Mithridate, and Phe、dre. The focus of this paper is upon comparing Shakespeare's predominance of man over woman with Racine's predominace of the fair sex above man. not the usual encomia very often refined upon both playwrights.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Ⅰ. 緖 論
• Ⅱ. 主人公의 特性
• Ⅲ. 相互反對的인 思想
• Ⅳ. 結 論