Shakespeare's Comedies Of Manners: The Perplexity Of Family Evolution And Construction

Shakespeare creates the comedy all his life, this dissertation studies the secularity of the comedies of the manners on the basis of the theory of comedy. Shakespeare broke the strict boundaries of satirical comedy and romantic comedy, so that the absurdity of life, rather than evil, the beauty of life, rather than noble achieve a real balance, and accurately describes the most authentic custom appearance of his time.The writer considers the custom comedies undergo three drama rhythms, the paternal world——the new standardized world——the Nuclear family from the View family culture, this article is divided into three chapters According to the three pattern. The first chapter reveals the facts of England renaissance history that "patriarchal family" gradually broke up on the impact of the new economic system. The second chapter explores the problem of the construction of the nuclear family,, and indicates the characteristics of the times of the "nuclear families'——"love ethics" "monetary base" "legal protection", and points out that the family ideal of Shakespeare's. The three chapter treats the gender conflict in the nuclear family on the irreconcilable self-consciousness, Studies the changes in family relationships from Medieval patriarchy to Renaissance partnership, to study the perplexity and conflict of gender relations from the changes,and points out that Shakespeare's confusion and the spirit of exploration to the most fundamental personal spiritual problem.