{"title":"Comedies of the Green World","authors":"L. Hopkins","doi":"10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198727682.013.33","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The green world is the space where different peoples meet each other: Illyrians and Messenians in Twelfth Night, humans and fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, courtiers and country-dwellers in As You Like It. In essence these plays are all first contact narratives in which each group sheds light on the other. As You Like It offers echoes of the English colonial enterprise and the push to conquer Guiana. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the wood outside Athens proves to be the repository of England’s hidden self, containing its past, both classical and Celtic. Above all Twelfth Night offers images of both a new world and of a new. This essay traces the dynamics of the encounters in each of these three plays, but focusing on Twelfth Night, the comedy in which comedy itself is interrogated as it is forced to confront its own limits and functions.","PeriodicalId":421471,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198727682.013.33","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The green world is the space where different peoples meet each other: Illyrians and Messenians in Twelfth Night, humans and fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, courtiers and country-dwellers in As You Like It. In essence these plays are all first contact narratives in which each group sheds light on the other. As You Like It offers echoes of the English colonial enterprise and the push to conquer Guiana. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the wood outside Athens proves to be the repository of England’s hidden self, containing its past, both classical and Celtic. Above all Twelfth Night offers images of both a new world and of a new. This essay traces the dynamics of the encounters in each of these three plays, but focusing on Twelfth Night, the comedy in which comedy itself is interrogated as it is forced to confront its own limits and functions.
绿色世界是不同民族相遇的空间:《第十二夜》里的伊利里亚人和迈塞尼亚人，《仲夏夜之梦》里的人类和仙女，《As You Like It》里的朝臣和乡下人。从本质上讲，这些戏剧都是第一次接触的叙述，每一组都阐明了另一组。《皆大欢喜》让人想起英国的殖民事业和征服圭亚那的努力。在《仲夏夜之梦》中，雅典城外的树林被证明是英格兰隐藏自我的储存库，包含了它的过去，古典的和凯尔特人的。最重要的是，第十二夜提供了一个新世界和一个新的图像。这篇文章追溯了这三部戏剧中相遇的动态，但重点放在《第十二夜》上，在这部喜剧中，喜剧本身被质疑，因为它被迫面对自己的局限性和功能。
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