著者

滝川 睦 Takikawa Mutsumu

出版者

名古屋大学人文学研究科

雑誌

名古屋大学人文学研究論集 (ISSN:2433233X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.55-71, 2018-03-31

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This paper is intended as an investigation of the poetics of diet in Shakespeare's major tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. As Michel Jeanneret suggests in A Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance, it is right to say that the dietetics in early modern England "prescribes rational control over one's eating" for gluttons, and that it "seeks to control bodily instincts and subject them to a form of social censure" (73). However, in this study, the main stress falls on the fact that the paradigm of the diet enacted by Shakespeare's major tragedies draws the different trajectory from the contemporary dietetics: from the release of "appetite," through "boundless intemperance," to the purgation. The Shakespearean paradigm of diet is vividly exemplified in Titania's advice to Bottom on his diet (MND 3.1.160–61). The accelerating "appetites" which start the diet represented in Shakespeare's major tragedies mainly consist of female characters' desires: Gertrude's "appetite" (Ham. 1.2.144); Desdemona's "greedy ear" (Oth. 1.3.150); Daughters' hunger for hypocritical words (Lr. 1.1.118–19); a sailor's wife's greediness for chestnuts (Mac. 1.3.4–6).本論は平成二十九年度JSPS 科学研究費補助金(基盤研究(C)課題番号16K02447)による課題「近代初期英国における食事文学についての歴史的・文化史的研究」の研究成果の一部である。