William Shakespeare’in Troilus ve Cressida Adlı Oyununda Bir Çağın Çöküşü

Bu makalede Shakespeare’in Troilus ve Cressida adlı oyununda grotesk realizm unsurları aracılığı ile epik ve Orta Çağ romans geleneklerinin alt üst oluşu tartışılmaktadır. Oyun, Troya’nın düşüşü anlatısında kahramanlık, saray aşkı ve romans değerlerinin daha ticari değerleri olan yeni çağda geçersiz olduğunu ortaya koyar. Shakespeare Orta Çağ kültürünün kahramanlık kavramının ve romans ideallerinin ikiyüzlülüğünü, Bakhtin’in anlattığı Orta Çağ halk kültürünün grotesk unsurları olarak okunabilecek, Thersites ve Pandarus adlı soytarı ve arabulucu aracılığı ile gösterir. Bakhtin’e göre yeni değerleri ve yeni edebi formları ile Rönesans’ın ortaya çıkmasında bu şölensel, karnavalesk ruh çok önemlidir.

The End of an Age: William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida

This paper discusses the subversion of the epic and medievalromance tradition through the elements of grotesque realism inWilliam Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. The play exposeschivalric values, courtly love, and romance values as invalidforms in the new age that is defined in more mercantile terms.Shakespeare shows the absurdity and hypocrisy of the conceptof honor and courtly love ideals of the medieval culture throughthe fool and the go-between, Thersites and Pandarus, who canbe interpreted as elements of grotesque realism of medievalfolk culture as Bakhtin describes. For Bakhtin, this festive,carnivalesque spirit is crucial in the emergence of the Renais-sance, a new culture with its own set of values and literaryforms.

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