왕정복고기 셰익스피어와 탈식민성

Restoration Shakespeare and Decoloniality: New Epistemic Heroine in William Davenant’s Macbeth

This paper justifies regarding ‘Restoration Shakespeare’ as ‘a decolonial drama’ by analyzing the differences between Davenant’s Macbeth and the Folio edition. Restoration Shakespeare expanded roles of women such as the three witches and Lady Macduff, adapted the new theatre language such as singing and dancing, and devised spectacular stage performances. All these dramatic techniques contribute to de-centering and overturing the colonial matrix of power (CMP). The anti-heroes in the periphery in the Folio edition emerged as new epistemic heroes in Davenant s Macbeth. With non-literal language and theatrical devices, the witches ridicule CMP which is reproduced and operated by Duncan-Macbeth-Malcolm. Davenant added new scenes for Lady Macduff who takes part in political debates and encounters the witches to reinforce her role to dismantle the foundation of CMP. Above all, Lady Macduff as a knowing-subject and epistemic heroine presents a new value of moral innocence against Macbeth s ambition and moral weakness. As a decolonial drama, Davenant s Macbeth represents decolonial epistemology with the adaptation of Shakespeare.