관객반응을 위한 셰익스피어의 실험적 기법:「트로일러스와 크레시다」 를 중심으로

Shakespeare’s Audience Response Technique in Troilus and Cressida.

This study aims to show that the ambivalent response felt by the audience of the Troilus and Cressida was a purposeful effect achieved by Shakespeare’s dramatic technique. The play is a story interwoven with love and war plots which produces a continual alternation between narrative stasis and narrative movement. And the story consists of the contradictory behavior of the characters, a static narrative, anticlimax, and the unresolved ending. Shakespeare manipulates audience response to the various characters and events using the degenerative theory. The response of the audience is created by various dramatic techniques which create a movement in the play that alternately attracts and repels the audience. The playwright achieves a detachment by the technique of inflation and deflation. Expectations are aroused and lowered between scenes; expectations of character are inflated by descriptions by other characters and then deflated by actual portrayals. The play dose not permit its audience to become emotionally involved to any extent. Thus Shakespeare keeps the audience concerned with the puzzle which the play entails after the play ends. So this play may be called an aspect of life. It deals with two all important facets of civilization: love and war. The playwright may tell us that the play is not resolved because these problems are never resolved and human cruelty, self-deception and lust go on through the generations.