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1、GeorgeWashingtonUniversityKingLear:TheGrammarofTragedyAuthor(s):EstherMerleJacksonSource:ShakespeareQuarterly,Vol.17,No.1(Winter,1966),pp.25-40Publishedby:FolgerShakespeareLibraryinassociationwithGeorgeWashingtonUniversityStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2867
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4、withJSTORtodigitize,preserveandextendaccesstoShakespeareQuarterly.http://www.jstor.orgKingLear:TheGrammarofTragedyESTHERMERLEJACKSONFor'tisyourthoughtsthatnowmustdeckourkings.(HenryV,I.i)Owe&>>,jINCEtheeighteenthcentury,therehasdevelopedalargebodyofcriticalopinion
5、whichhasheldthatthedramaofShake-speareissoconceivedthatitismoreappropriatelyreadasliteraturethanseenastheater.Althoughthemostvirulentat-tackagainstShakespeare'sdramaticmethodhascomefromaplaywrightunsympathetictotheElizabethantradition,simi-larsuggestionshavebeenof
6、feredbyEnglishcritics.ManyofVoltaire'sobjec-tionstoShakespeare's"grammaroftragedy"arereflectedintheworkofneo-classicistssuchasPope,ofromanticistssuchasLamb,andmorerecentlyinthatofhumanistssuchasBradley.Indeed,theconsensusofEnglishcriticalopinionhasbeenthatthetragi
7、cformofShakespeare-unlikethatofclassicalGreekdramaorthatofneoclassicalFrenchdrama-derivesfromapoeticvisionofsuchbrilliancethatnogrammarcansufficetotranslateitintocon-creteform.ThesuggestionthatthetragediesofShakespearecannotbeperformedisadisturbingone.Certainly,to
8、confineShakespearetothepurelyliteraryistoengageintheprocessofaestheticreduction;itistodeprivehiscomplexdramaofitsplasticform,aswellastodiminishmanyofits
