2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Decoding a message in Shakespeare's Narrative Poems and Sonnets
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23720154
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Baiko Gakuin University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | シェイクスピア / エリザベス朝政治 / 君主 / republicanism / 反エリザベス |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research, I analyze the possibility that Shakespeare may have inserted a hidden code in his two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. These two poems have the common imageries such as the imageries of war and colors (red and white), and representations of king/queen. When we consider the similarities of the two narrative poems from the Elizabethan political context, I propose that Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece embody a dangerous code, namely, an anti-Elizabethan ideology.
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