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

no.2, pp.89-99, 2019-03-31

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This paper is intended as an investigation of the dietetics enacted by Shakespeare's Timon of Athens (Tim.). It is true, as I have previously suggested in the paper entitled "Timon as a Wild Man: An Approach to Timon of Athens," that Tim. is comprised of the Jacobean court masque elements: the masque and the antimasque. In the contemporary court masques, the main masque represents the magnanimity and bounty embodied in the prince, while the antimasque as "the rehearsal of cultures" (Mullaney 60–87) tends to disrupt and cast a shadow over the main masque. However, the cannibalistic images permeated in Tim. deconstruct the masque-like binary opposition in this play. The dietary consumption in Tim., on the other hand, represents the voidness of Timon's self. As Patricia Fumerton points out in Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament, the court masque is a kind of "void" or dessert which is exhibited and consumed in James I's Banqueting House. It is fair to say that Timon's self in the woods as well as Athens, "my confectionary" (4.3.259), is completely consumed and brought to "nothing" (5.2.73).本論は平成三十年度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。