چکیده:
Concerning the scandal about the sexuality of the people, a young man and a dark lady, addressed in the Sonnets of William Shakespeare and their true identities, the present study aims at highlighting the fact that too much concern for such matters has been paid for by ignoring the discrimination that the poet had brought against the lady. This oppressive measure is tangibly present in both the language of degradation that he uses for describing the dark lady versus the language of glorification for the young man, and also the uneven number of the sonnets devoted to each of them. To this end, the reason for this defect in the sonnets is critically detected through general and particular discussions of them in the light of New Historicism and French Feminism as theoretical frameworks.
خلاصه ماشینی:
0 Received: 21 Aug, 2019 Revised: 19 Jan, 2021 Accepted: 17 Aug, 2021 ABSTRACT Concerning the scandal about the sexuality of the people, a young man and a dark lady, addressed in the Sonnets of William Shakespeare and their true identities, the present study aims at highlighting the fact that too much concern for such matters has been paid for by ignoring the discrimination that the poet had brought against the lady.
The greatest part of the energy and time that Auden refers to has certainly been wasted on the problem of sexuality, that is on the gender of the people addressed by the poems or what has come to be notoriously termed, in Margreta de Grazia words, “the scandal” (1994: 36) of the sonnets.
From this perspective, the sonnets have reproduced or actively participated in the “circulation” of a socio-political order, or culturally accepted practice based on which expressing affections for a young man of noble aristocratic line is more naturally looked at, and more in line with the dominant discursive practice than doing so about a woman who is “foul”.
In ‘Sorties’, an essay published in 1975, she begins by a long list of such binary oppositions in which the woman always occupies the inferior position: Activity/Passivity, Sun/Moon, Culture/Nature, | 102 Language of Praise versus Language of Degradation In Shakespeare’s Sonnets Day/Night, Father/Mother, Head/Heart, Intelligible/Sensitive, Logos/Pathos.
The language of praise and that of degradation used by Shakespeare in the sonnets to the young boy and the dark lady, respectively, dramatizes an extreme of oppositions which, from the feminist stance, is intrinsic to the cultural milieu in which they are, after all, rooted.