셰익스피어의 낭만희극과 웃음의 사회적 기능 (Shakespeare’s Romantic Comedy and the Social Function of Laughter)

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· 발행기관 : 한국셰익스피어학회
· 수록지 정보 : Shakespeare Review / 54권 / 2호 / 251 ~ 281페이지
· 저자명 : 강석주

초록

In Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, laughter is not a means of mocking or giving instruction, but a means of giving pleasure and joy. The dramatic worlds of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Twelfth Night involve the crisis of suffering and pain. But laughter makes them forgettable, and plays the role of increasing the pleasure and joy celebrating the love and marriages of lovers. This laughter does not come from pleasure but coexist with pleasure. Shakespeare uses the festive elements, which are often regarded as the means of resolving the discontents and pain in society, in order to extend the function of laughter in his romantic comedies. Sometimes laughter in Shakespeare’s romantic comedies stands on the border of suffering and happiness, it is taken as a means to feel the freedom from social restraint. However, Shakespeare’s laughter is different from Bakhtin’s carnival laughter. Shakespeare’s romantic laughter does not have the power to change the society, because it is unrealistic. It is based on fantasy, not on reality. Laughter caused by magic or illusion has the essential limit. Many characters of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies are the victims of illusion. When we laugh at the characters who pursue what they cannot get, we also can be the objects of laughter.

영어초록

In Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, laughter is not a means of mocking or giving instruction, but a means of giving pleasure and joy. The dramatic worlds of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Twelfth Night involve the crisis of suffering and pain. But laughter makes them forgettable, and plays the role of increasing the pleasure and joy celebrating the love and marriages of lovers. This laughter does not come from pleasure but coexist with pleasure. Shakespeare uses the festive elements, which are often regarded as the means of resolving the discontents and pain in society, in order to extend the function of laughter in his romantic comedies. Sometimes laughter in Shakespeare’s romantic comedies stands on the border of suffering and happiness, it is taken as a means to feel the freedom from social restraint. However, Shakespeare’s laughter is different from Bakhtin’s carnival laughter. Shakespeare’s romantic laughter does not have the power to change the society, because it is unrealistic. It is based on fantasy, not on reality. Laughter caused by magic or illusion has the essential limit. Many characters of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies are the victims of illusion. When we laugh at the characters who pursue what they cannot get, we also can be the objects of laughter.

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