シェイクスピア講演、ライヴ

昨日は夕方に駒場。東京大学COE哲学センター (UTCP）と日本シェイクスピア協会の共催で、フランスの著名なシェイクスピア研究者Francois Laroque（パリ第三大学）による講演。

"Italy vs. Africa. Topographies of desire in Othello, Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest"

講演要旨は以下の通り。
This paper calls attention to the ambivalent divide which Shakespeare constructs in his dramas of desire and empire, where territory, maps and place names become intermingled in a nest of stories where the exotic other, racial difference and antipodean cultures are made to clash or merge, in order to represent the paradox of desire, its power as well as its shame in the tensions it arouses with the duties or landmarks of a character’s original cultural background. The encounter between “an erring barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian” (Othello, I.3.348-49), the overcoming of ‘Mars’ by a ‘gypsy’s lust’ (Antony and Cleopatra, I.1.4-10) and the marriage of an Italian princess to an African (The Tempest, II.1.122-23), all predicate desire on tropes of otherness by associating it with various geographical sites where Italy –be it Venice, Rome, Milan or Naples—is opposed to as well as paired with Africa. Beyond intertextual resonances, such ‘geography of difference’ (John Gillies) works towards an exploration of the contrarieties of desire and serves to promote an anthropological approach to gender and sexuality.

『テンペスト』が典型なんだろうけど、シェイクスピアがイタリアとアフリカ（『テンペスト』だったらアルジェリアとチュニス／カルタゴ）に言及する際に、ウェルギリウス（DidoとAeneasの物語）がいわばサブテクストになるようだ。ウェルギリウスといえばもちろんドライデンも入れ込んだ詩人なわけで、ちゃんと読まないといけないのだけど、翻訳でパラパラと見ただけなので、もう少しきちんと読む必要があるなと。

その後、夜には下北沢。寺尾紗穂「弾き語りライブ」＠La Cana。
まあ、この方に関しては、神が二物も三物も与えたような人なわけで。いいステージでした。