著者

鏡 ますみ

出版者

鳥羽商船高等専門学校

雑誌

鳥羽商船高等専門学校紀要 (ISSN:03879283)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, pp.11-18, 2008-02

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The aim of this essay is to read Thomas Deloney's "The Queenes visiting of the Campe at Tilburie with her entertainment there"(1588) in relation to what is stated / what is left unstated by the narrator of the work, and to investigate the poet's strategies for raising the morale of the English people in general as well as the soldiers. Deloney sets up a narrator "I", who narrates the Queen's visit from an omniscient position as if he is giving a live report from Tilbury The narrator sometimes tactfully withholds specific narration about courtiers and the military and provides vaguely delineated images instead; and he sometimes adds realistic touches by directly quoting the Queen's statements at the camp. By this, he successfully creates an idealized, but reality-based realm with the Queen at its centre. The work does not literally follow historical events, and the poet carefully mixes vague narrative and the people's or soldiers' misgivings with the Queen's assumed speeches, and thereby creates his own version of the Tilbury legend. The technique of what is stated or left unstated by the narrator increases both the recipients' sense of trust towards the Queen and national unity in the face of the approaching enemy.