王寶祥臺灣大學：外國語文學研究所巫維芬Wu, Wei-FenWei-FenWu2007-11-262018-05-292007-11-262018-05-292007http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/52673The sense of hearing plays an important role in Renaissance England theatre to the extent that we modern audience, who are accustomed to visual spectacles, can hardly imagine. Due to the limited techniques at that time, orality shares the same explanatory power with, even prevails over visuality on the stage. My thesis aims at re-discovering the neglected auditory dimensions in Shakespeare’s theatrical world, taking The Tempest as a major example. First I contextualize the concept of sounds and hearing in early modern England. The Renaissance attitude toward music is quite divided: whereas the concept of music is considered as embodiment of divine order in neo-platonism, the real performance of music is condemned as spiritual distraction from God in religious discourses. The sense of hearing is taken not only as a spiritual access to God but also the site where true obedience shall originate. To examine the employment of sound in Renaissance theatre, I approach three of Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night, each from different auditory dimensions. Instead of taking the music as a univocal symbol of harmony, the sounds are more delicately employed to interact with the verbal text. Based on these approaches, I present an integrated examination of the theatrical soundscape of The Tempest. Shakespeare portrays that the music is socially constructed as ‘high’ and ‘low’ ones, and the ruler is anxious to face the crisis of these two different musical spheres crossing over each other. Unlike previous critics’ conclusion of the music as a harmonious one, I argue that this musical concord is rendered ambivalent and fictional, and the absence of music in the end gives a hint on the superficial reconciliation. Instead of presenting Prospero as a musician king like Orpheus, who uses music to comfort creatures, Shakespeare demonstrates how Prospero controls his subject by monopolizing the soundscape on the island. Being a failed ruler once, the magician now usurps Ariel’s voice as his political instrument and forces attention from Miranda and Ferdinand. The disobedient Caliban and his drunken company find the form of their rebelling energy in the music, which threatens to corrupt the idealized auditory world of Prospero’s masque. The soundscape of The Tempest, which is filled of both painful cries and magical songs, undermines neo-platonic idea of music and further exhibits a Machiavellian usage of sounds in Shakespeare’s theatrical world.Table of Contents Abstract iv Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 Chapter One Renaissance Ears: Early Modern Discourses on Music, Sound and Hearing 13 I. Neo-platonism: Plato and Boethius 13 II. The Ambivalent Power of Music 18 III. Divine or Corruptive 22 IV. Disobedient Ears 25 Chapter Two Sounds in Renaissance Theatre 30 I. The Acoustic World of Renaissance Theatre 30 II. The Role of Music on the Renaissance Stage 32 II.i Structure 32 II.ii Representation 33 II.iii Plot 34 II.iv Character 35 III. Three Cases of Soundscapes 39 III.i The blurring Sounds in Hamlet 39 III.ii The Echoes in Macbeth 42 III.iii The Triangles of Music and Love in Twelfth Night 49 Chapter Three The Sound of Disobedience in The Tempest 57 I. Different Auditory Spheres 59 I.i ‘High’ Music--the Masque 60 I. ii Disruptive Power of ‘Scurvy Tune’ 62 I.iii Mixing/Coalescing of the Two Worlds 65 II. Fiction of Harmony 67 II. i Dubious Existence of Harmonious Sounds 67 II.ii The Question of Final Reconciliation 70 III. Master of Sounds: Mythological Reading of The Tempest 72 III.i Prospero and Orpheus 72 III.ii Prospero and Medea 74 III.iii Caliban’s Model 79 IV. Prospero’s Monopoly 80 IV.i “What cares the roarers”: the King’s Power Over the Soundscape 83 IV.ii The Importance of Being Attentive: Ferdinand and Miranda 86 IV.iii The Magical Airs and the Painful Cries: Ariel and Caliban 89 Conclusion 94 Bibliography 97317363 bytesapplication/pdfen-US莎士比亞暴風雨聲音音樂卡力班ShakespeareThe TempestmusicsoundscapeCalibanthesishttp://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/52673/1/ntu-96-R92122010-1.pdf