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标题：East-West Theories of Tragedy: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Ji Junxiang’s 纪君祥 Zhaoshi guer 赵氏孤儿 (The Orphan of Zhao)
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作者：Elizabeth Harper
期刊名称：Comparative Literature: East & West
电子版ISSN：2572-3618
出版年度：2019
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：38-52
DOI：10.1080/25723618.2019.1592865
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：As a sally in reading across cultures, this paper takes two dramas conceived and performed at opposite ends of Eurasia as a point of departure for ruminations on the genre of tragedy. Though not considered a masterpiece by critics within or outside of China, Ji Junxiang’s 纪君祥 Zhaoshi guer 赵氏孤儿 (The Orphan of Zhao) was the first Chinese drama to be rendered into any European language and the only Chinese play that has had a significant impact on European drama. Unreflectively known as the “Chinese Hamlet” by those first European readers who were eager to find their own selves reflected in the new encounter with China, the play has become bound up with the politics of cultural poetics, which govern how we read works from cultures outside of “the West.” Here, I point to those larger structures of thought which underpin a given culture’s literary production and use Hamlet and The Orphan of Zhao as a test case for thinking more broadly about how drama as an art form in two major cultural traditions reflects different answers to the same perennial human questions.
关键词：East-West;cross-cultural;drama;tragedy;theories of tragedy;東西;跨文化;杂剧;悲剧;悲剧的理论;哈姆雷特;赵氏孤