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Power, Desire and Theatrical representation in Shakespreare's Measure for Measure
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무대로 재현된 권력과 욕망 : 『자에는 자로』를 중심으로

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The Shakespeare Association Of Korea Shakespeare Review Vol.37 No.1 KCI Accredited Journals
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2001.3
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165 - 195 (31page)

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Power, Desire and Theatrical representation in Shakespreare's Measure for Measure
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Recently New Historians have put forward the view that, Renaissance plays do not represent a closed theatrical reality. They have re-placed Renaissance plays within the reality of that age, the theater as its institution, and the literature as its practice. Shakespearean plays, socio-political-cultural foci of early modern age, follow the process of consolidation, subversion, and containment of dominant ideology of the age.
In this, the stage is the place where the early modem selves are constructed and experimented with within a dialectic between the individual and the society. Shakespeare's Measure for Measure is a socio-political text which is based on Thinthio's Italian novella. It reflects the socio spectrum of early modern London, infusing the old plot with the city lives, outweighing the dominant social and political ideology. Because the Duke Vincentio on the stage resembles James I in the court and his authority resounds James J's. As a political head as well as a dramatic figure in the plot, he grasps the political and the theatrical world. He develops, changes and finishes the plot to his will. What he has done in the end is to subordinate all the subjects to him, without subjectivity.
Female sexuality is most precarious in this text and is the main reason for this problem play, just being Isabella is a problem in itself. She is another stereotype in early modern text, different from a whore, a nun. What we need to be careful about her is the place in the early modem patriarchal world. Once she follows the Duke, she loses her subjectivity. Eventually she loses her words and remains in silence. The problem in her is the lack of sexuality as well as the surplus of power in Duke.
Centering on the dominant male figure of Duke and the female sexuality of Isabella, Shakespeare's Measure for Measure repeats the main discourse of the age. It reveals how the theater conflicts and temporizes the outer world. It is a cultural locus from which the political authority compresses and exemplifies the history from Machiabelli to English James I.
Marriage is not a romantic conclusion but a institutional decision to tie the characters' sexuality to the nation.

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