二十世纪英国戏剧

章节摘录

　　The play is built on the title character Christy Mahon, a hapless but likeable young man, who thinks he has killed his father in a fight and escapes to a remote part of north Mayo. The local publican, Micheal James, allows him to remain as a potboy to safeguard his daughter, Pegeen Mike, while he attends a wake. Pegeen Mike, an attractive, strong-willed, and quick-tempered young woman, falls in love with Christy, much to the indignation of her cousin and would-be suitor Shawn Keogh. Like Michael Dara in The Shadow of the Glen, Keoghs character, weak, cowardly and in thrall to the Catholic church in the form of the local priest, forms a sharp contrast to Christy as Synges embodiment of the "rampant, double-chinned vulgarity" that he observed on his travels in the west of Ireland. Pegeen Mike draws from Christy the confession that he has killed his father with the blow of "a loy." This news spreads like wildfire among the tightly policed community of the peninsula. Christys romantic tale of parricide makes him a hero among the local women, being pursued not only by Pegeen but also Widow Quin who remains loyal to him to the end. Christys valor at the local sports in winning the horse race on the strand confirms his role as a hero and makes him truly "the playboy of western world." But then, Old Mahon, Christys father, shows up with a bandaged head and exposes him. The villagers give up their embrace of Christy, and turn upon their hero despite his offer to "slay his da" a second time. Pegeen leads them in the effort to bring him to due process of the law. Appalled by seeing Pegeen turn on him, Christy escapes from their clutches and tames his bullying father. Then the father and son wander off together from the stage, leaving Pegeen disappointed and protesting in an agony of "Oh my grief, I re lost him surely. Ive lost the only Playboy of the Western World."　　Even when the play was in rehearsal, Lady Gregory had written to Synge, "I feel we are beginning the fight for our lives." Lady Gregorys anxiety proved to be right. On the night of the plays premiere, at first the audience was receptive, but as the play ran on, they became increasingly uncertain how they should respond to this strange tale of a young man who wandered into a remote Mayo community claiming to have killed his father. And when Christy chased his father outside to kill him again, the darkened air in the theatre suddenly burst： there was bedlam of hisses and yells in the auditorium. Even though police were called, the roit continued until the house and stage lights were put out, silencing the protestors with darkness.

前言

　　北京大学出版社自2005年以来已出版《语言与应用语言学知识系列读本》多种，为了配合第十一个五年计划，现又策划陆续出版《21世纪英语专业系列教材》。这个重大举措势必受到英语专业广大教师和学生的欢迎。　　作为英语教师。最让人揪心的莫过于听人说英语不是一个专业，只是一个工具。说这些话的领导和教师的用心是好的。为英语专业的毕业生将来找工作着想.因此要为英语专业的学生多多开设诸如新闻、法律、国际商务、经济、旅游等其他专业的课程。但事与愿违，英语专业的教师们很快发现，学生投入英语学习的时间少了，掌握英语专业课程知识甚微，即使对四个技能的掌握也并不比大学英语学生高明多少，而那个所谓的第二专业在有关专家的眼中只是学到些皮毛而已。　　英语专业的路在何方？有没有其他路可走？这是需要我们英语专业教师思索的问题。中央领导关于创新是一个民族的灵魂和要培养创新人才等的指示精神。让我们在层层迷雾中找到了航向。显然，培养学生具有自主学习能力和能进行创造性思维是我们更为重要的战略目标，使英语专业的人才更能适应21世纪的需要.迎接21世纪的挑战。　　如今，北京大学出版社外语部的领导和编辑同志们，也从教材出版的视角探索英语专业的教材问题，从而为贯彻英语专业教学大纲做些有益的工作，为教师们开设大纲中所规定的必修、选修课程提供各种教材。“21世纪英语专业系列教材”是普通高等教育“十一五”国家级规划教材和国家“十一五”重点出版规划项目《面向新世纪的立体化网络化英语学科建设丛书》的重要组成部分。这套系列教材要体现新世纪英语教学的自主化、协作化、模块化和超文本化，结合外语教材的具体情况，既要解决语言、教学内容、教学方法和教育技术的时代化，也要坚持弘扬以爱国主义为核心的民族精神。因此，今天北京大学出版社在大力提倡专业英语教学改革的基础上。编辑出版各种英语专业技能、英语专业知识和相关专业知识课程的教材，以培养具有创新性思维的和具有实际工作能力的学生，充分体现了时代精神。

书籍目录

Pre-War British Drama　Chapter 1 Pre-War British Drama　Chapter 2 George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion　Chapter 3 John Millington Synge: The Tinker's Wedding"New Drama" and the First Wave　Chapter 4 Post-1956 "New Drama" and the First Wave　Chapter 5 John Osborne: Look Back in Anger　Chapter 6 Arnold Wesker: Chicken Soup with Barley　Chapter 7 Edward Bond: Lear　Chapter 8 Harold Pinter: The Dumb WaiterThe Second Wave　Chapter 9 The Second Wave of Post-war British Drama　Chapter 10 Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead　Chapter 11 Howard Brenten: The Romans in Britain　Chapter 12 David Hare: SkylightWomen Dramatists　Chapter 13 Women Dramatists after 1970s and Alternative heatres　Chapter 14 Caryl Churchill: Vinegar Tom　Chapter 15 Sarah Kane: BlastedSelective Bibiliography

作者简介

《二十世纪英国戏剧》这本教材的构想主要基于两位作者多年来对二十世纪、尤其是战后英国戏剧的研究和授课之上。该书将在汲取现有教材精华的基础上，沿着不同于其它教材编写的思路进行。本书共分为四部分：1956年前的英国戏剧；第一次浪潮；第二次浪潮；女性剧作家。 第一部分主要包括爱尔兰作家M·辛格（John Milling Synge,1871-1909）、肖恩·奥凯西（Sean O'Casey,1880-1964）和萧伯纳。他们作为爱尔兰文艺复兴和英国现代戏剧的象征，代表了战前英国戏剧的最高成就。 第二部分主要包括奥斯本、威斯克、邦德和品特四位剧作家。通过对这几位剧作家的介绍和评述，从而厘定五十年代后期崛起的第一批剧作家的风貌，是他们开辟了战后以创新和反映当代现实为己任的"新戏剧"的主旋律。 第三部分主要包括斯托帕特、布伦顿、海尔和阿兰· （Alan Ayckbourn, 1939-）四位剧作家，以此来反映在1968年之后再次涌现的第二次戏剧新浪潮。 第四部分包括了与英国男性主流剧作家相对应的两位女性剧作家卡里尔·丘吉尔和萨拉·凯恩，该章的目的是为了表现70年代后才崭露头角的女性剧作家的作品和成就。这些女性剧作家在西方"后现代主义"和女权主义盛行的背景之下，积极参与集体实验性创作，成功地从边缘走向了主流。

图书封面

---

 二十世纪英国戏剧下载

---