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題名 逆演莎翁：《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》中的諧擬和敬意
Playing against the Bard: Parody and Homage in the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
作者 姜翠芬
貢獻者 英文系
關鍵詞 《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》; 挪用; 改編; 諧擬; 喜劇
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); appropriation; adaptation; parody; comedy
日期 2021-08
上傳時間 7-Jul-2026 13:45:48 (UTC+8)
摘要 《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》是在1987年首演的一齣喜劇，由龍恩、辛爾和溫菲德三人合寫兼演出。這齣號稱在97分鐘內演完莎士比亞全部37齣戲的爆笑喜劇獲得無數至高評價，原因是這三位編劇兼演員成功地把莎翁縮小了。他們用的方式是可笑、速食，但又機智、娛樂，正如他們劇團的名字一樣──縮小莎士比亞劇團。本計畫要檢視RSC在《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》劇中看起來好像是隨便亂用莎士比亞經典作品，但卻是諧擬莎翁戲劇精華部份，研究RSC如何向莎翁致敬，如何藉模仿莎翁來新創莎翁。 過去450年來，許多作者、演員和電影人都重新演出、詮釋、改編、挪用過莎士比亞的戲劇，使得莎翁成為全世界的文化資產。然而，莎士比亞學者泰勒卻認為在這個看似光彩奪目的莎翁崇拜風潮下，莎士比亞正在式微，因為現在莎士比亞戲劇表演的票房並不好。因此，我想在計畫中透過挪用和改編、諧擬和喜劇的觀點探索為什麼RSC的喜劇可以一直保持賣座。我將援用哈契恩的改編和諧擬的理論，以及巴赫汀和莫瑞爾的喜劇理論來輔助分析。 嚴格上來說，RSC在37齣戲中只選了7齣戲簡短演出，講了「一齣」喜劇，但是卻是用了莎翁16齣故事雷同的喜劇拼湊出的一齣喜劇，還用美式足球比賽方式演出7齣歷史劇。然而，這種用改編30齣戲的「節錄」方式不但符合現代觀眾速食化的觀賞習慣，它也將部份莎翁語言的美麗和智慧的深邃濃縮在一起呈現出來。《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》受歡迎的魔法就在於它是喜劇。開懷大笑減輕不敬和冒犯，它也還原了450年前莎翁如何用粗鄙玩笑和滑稽可笑娛樂觀眾。《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》可能是透過諧擬消費了莎翁，但是它的創新喜劇手法卻可以提供另一種嶄新的視角來認識莎士比亞的聰敏。
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), premiered in 1987, is a comedy co-written and performed by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. Claiming that it finishes all the 37 plays by William Shakespeare in 97 minutes, this hilarious comedy has garnered numerous high acclaim because three playwrights/actors succeed in shrinking the Bard in a ludicrously fast-food but wittily entertaining way, as implicated in the name of their troupe—Reduced Shakespeare Company (also known as “RSC” like Royal Shakespeare Company). This project intends to examine how RSC in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) parodies the quintessential parts of the Bard’s oeuvres seemingly at their expense while paying homage to the master, reinventing Shakespeare by imitating Shakespeare. Many writers, actors, and film-makers in the past 450 years have reproduced, reinterpreted, adapted, and appropriated Shakespeare’s plays, making the Bard the cultural capital in the whole world. However, the Shakespearean scholar Gary Taylor argues Shakespeare is shrinking behind this glamorous Bardolatry because Shakespeare’s stage plays are not good box office (197-205). Therefore, I would like to explore in this project how RSC’s comedy can maintain their good box office through the perspectives of appropriation and adaptation, parody, and comedy by employing adaptation and parody theories of Linda Hutcheon, and comedy theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin and John Morreall. Strictly speaking, among the 37 plays by Shakespeare, RSC only selects 7 plays (Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Othello, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet) for brief performances, retells the story of the “one” comedy by combining the Bard’s 16 comedies of similar plots (Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Two Gentlemen from Verona, and A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, etc.), and enacts 7 history plays (Richard II, King John, Henry VI, “King Lear,” Henry IV, Richard III, and Henry VIII) in the form of football game. Nevertheless, this “abridged” way of the adaptation of the approximately 30 plays not only conforms to the fast-food viewing habit of modern audience, but it also encapsulates some beauty of Shakespeare’s language and profundity of Shakespeare’s wisdom. In addition, RSC offends the Bard by parodying and praising him. The magic of the popularity of The Complete Works lies in comedy. Laughter ameliorates their impiety and offense, and retrieves how the Bard entertained his audience with crude humor and absurdity 450 hundred years ago. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) might have consumed Shakespeare through parody, but its creative comedy perhaps can offer another new viewpoint to acknowledge the genius of Shakespeare.
關聯 科技部, MOST109-2635-H004-001, 109.08-110.07
資料類型 report
dc.contributor 英文系
dc.creator (作者) 姜翠芬
dc.date (日期) 2021-08
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dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 7-Jul-2026 13:45:48 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier.uri (URI) https://ah.lib.nccu.edu.tw/item?item_id=183216-
dc.description.abstract (摘要) 《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》是在1987年首演的一齣喜劇，由龍恩、辛爾和溫菲德三人合寫兼演出。這齣號稱在97分鐘內演完莎士比亞全部37齣戲的爆笑喜劇獲得無數至高評價，原因是這三位編劇兼演員成功地把莎翁縮小了。他們用的方式是可笑、速食，但又機智、娛樂，正如他們劇團的名字一樣──縮小莎士比亞劇團。本計畫要檢視RSC在《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》劇中看起來好像是隨便亂用莎士比亞經典作品，但卻是諧擬莎翁戲劇精華部份，研究RSC如何向莎翁致敬，如何藉模仿莎翁來新創莎翁。 過去450年來，許多作者、演員和電影人都重新演出、詮釋、改編、挪用過莎士比亞的戲劇，使得莎翁成為全世界的文化資產。然而，莎士比亞學者泰勒卻認為在這個看似光彩奪目的莎翁崇拜風潮下，莎士比亞正在式微，因為現在莎士比亞戲劇表演的票房並不好。因此，我想在計畫中透過挪用和改編、諧擬和喜劇的觀點探索為什麼RSC的喜劇可以一直保持賣座。我將援用哈契恩的改編和諧擬的理論，以及巴赫汀和莫瑞爾的喜劇理論來輔助分析。 嚴格上來說，RSC在37齣戲中只選了7齣戲簡短演出，講了「一齣」喜劇，但是卻是用了莎翁16齣故事雷同的喜劇拼湊出的一齣喜劇，還用美式足球比賽方式演出7齣歷史劇。然而，這種用改編30齣戲的「節錄」方式不但符合現代觀眾速食化的觀賞習慣，它也將部份莎翁語言的美麗和智慧的深邃濃縮在一起呈現出來。《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》受歡迎的魔法就在於它是喜劇。開懷大笑減輕不敬和冒犯，它也還原了450年前莎翁如何用粗鄙玩笑和滑稽可笑娛樂觀眾。《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》可能是透過諧擬消費了莎翁，但是它的創新喜劇手法卻可以提供另一種嶄新的視角來認識莎士比亞的聰敏。
dc.description.abstract (摘要) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), premiered in 1987, is a comedy co-written and performed by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. Claiming that it finishes all the 37 plays by William Shakespeare in 97 minutes, this hilarious comedy has garnered numerous high acclaim because three playwrights/actors succeed in shrinking the Bard in a ludicrously fast-food but wittily entertaining way, as implicated in the name of their troupe—Reduced Shakespeare Company (also known as “RSC” like Royal Shakespeare Company). This project intends to examine how RSC in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) parodies the quintessential parts of the Bard’s oeuvres seemingly at their expense while paying homage to the master, reinventing Shakespeare by imitating Shakespeare. Many writers, actors, and film-makers in the past 450 years have reproduced, reinterpreted, adapted, and appropriated Shakespeare’s plays, making the Bard the cultural capital in the whole world. However, the Shakespearean scholar Gary Taylor argues Shakespeare is shrinking behind this glamorous Bardolatry because Shakespeare’s stage plays are not good box office (197-205). Therefore, I would like to explore in this project how RSC’s comedy can maintain their good box office through the perspectives of appropriation and adaptation, parody, and comedy by employing adaptation and parody theories of Linda Hutcheon, and comedy theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin and John Morreall. Strictly speaking, among the 37 plays by Shakespeare, RSC only selects 7 plays (Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Othello, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet) for brief performances, retells the story of the “one” comedy by combining the Bard’s 16 comedies of similar plots (Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Two Gentlemen from Verona, and A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, etc.), and enacts 7 history plays (Richard II, King John, Henry VI, “King Lear,” Henry IV, Richard III, and Henry VIII) in the form of football game. Nevertheless, this “abridged” way of the adaptation of the approximately 30 plays not only conforms to the fast-food viewing habit of modern audience, but it also encapsulates some beauty of Shakespeare’s language and profundity of Shakespeare’s wisdom. In addition, RSC offends the Bard by parodying and praising him. The magic of the popularity of The Complete Works lies in comedy. Laughter ameliorates their impiety and offense, and retrieves how the Bard entertained his audience with crude humor and absurdity 450 hundred years ago. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) might have consumed Shakespeare through parody, but its creative comedy perhaps can offer another new viewpoint to acknowledge the genius of Shakespeare.
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dc.subject (關鍵詞) 《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》; 挪用; 改編; 諧擬; 喜劇
dc.subject (關鍵詞) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); appropriation; adaptation; parody; comedy
dc.title (題名) 逆演莎翁：《莎士比亞全集（節錄版）》中的諧擬和敬意
dc.title (題名) Playing against the Bard: Parody and Homage in the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
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