Abstract：Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans by Plutarch has a profound influence on Shakespeare's Roman historical play Coriolanus. However, Plutarch's Volumnia with the double identity of a mother and a good citizen, appearing three times either in “home” or “the enemy's camp”, tends to manifest a general static beauty. By contrast, Shakespeare's Volumnia in Coriolanus with the tri-identity, namely a woman, a mother and an invisible national political manipulator, appearing nine times with six times in dominant presence and three times in absent presence, presents a paradoxical beauty in multi-dimensional space with her dynamic transformation and the beauty of soul interwoven with rationality, desire, passion and vitality. Starting from the reality of life, Shakespeare refashioned the image of Volumnia within the broad historical background and social surroundings typical of his times and reflected the contemporary situation of women in the domestic and political fields. Through the imagination and construction of the relationship between Volumnia's implicit political participation and her way of family education, Shakespeare organically associated family ethics with national politics to highlight his idea of the isomorphism of family and country.
于艳平,李伟昉. 古罗马社会的女性、身体与政治——以莎士比亚笔下的伏伦妮娅形象为中心[J]. 浙江工商大学学报, 2022, 36(3): 13-23.
YU Yanping, LI Weifang. Female, Body and Politics in Ancient Rome:Centering on Volumnia in Coriolanus by Shakespeare. Journal of Zhejing Gongshang University, 2022, 36(3): 13-23.
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