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John dryden’s the conquest of granada : the green-eyed monster reconsidered
Other Title(s)
سرحية جون درايدن "احتلال غرناطة " : إعادة النظر في مفهوم الغيرة
Author
Source
Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature
Issue
Vol. 1, Issue 1 (30 Sep. 2008), pp.1-21, 21 p.
Publisher
Yarmouk University Deanship of Research and Graduate Studies
Publication Date
2008-09-30
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
21
Main Subjects
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Abstract AR
تبين هذه الدراسة بأن الكاتب المسرحي البريطاني جون درايدن (John Dryden) يتعامل مع الغيرة عند الرجال في مسرحيته احتلال غرناطة (The Conquest of Granada) بطريقة مختلفة عن رؤية وتعامل معاصريه من كتّاب المسرح مع هذه الظاهرة. في الوقت الذي يتعامل معها معاصروه على أنها تعكس أنانية الرجل في الحب ونزعته لتملك المرأة التي يحب، يراها درايدن (Dryden) ناتجة عن عوامل خارجية، مثل الظروف الاجتماعية، الاقتصادية أو السياسية التي يعيشها الرجل.
و رؤيته هذه تتفق مع ما بينته الدراسات في العصر الحديث، رغم أن المسرحية تعود لفترة عودة الملكية في بريطانيا (Restoration), حيث كتبت بين عامي 1670 و 1671م. وفي الوقت الذي يصور معاصروه، في مسرحياتهم، الشخصيات التي ترى أن الغيرة دليل على قوة الحب و صدقه أناساً غير متحضرين يتوجب على المجتمع قمعهم و تحقيرهم، يتبع درايدن (Dryden) أسلوباً منطقياً في التعامل معهم .
خلافاً لأسلوب معاصريه فهو يسمح لهؤلاء الأشخاص بأن يبدو وجهة نظرهم ثم يقوم تدريجياً و بأسلوب عقلاني بإقناعهم بأن اعتقادهم خاطئ، و ذلك ببيان ما قد تتمخض عنه الغيرة من مخاطر.
درايدن (Dryden) بذلك يكون أكثر إقناعاً لجمهوره من الكتاب الآخرين بشرور الغيرة و ضرورة كبح جماحها.
Abstract EN
-This paper demonstrates that John Dryden in The Conquest of Granada treats jealousy in men from the modern psychoanalytical perspective.
When other playwrights of his period conceive man’s jealousy, in their plays, as a selfish sexual passion, Dryden views it more of socio-cultural and political influences.
In other words, he does not narrowly confine jealousy to heterosexual love, nor does he bind it to man’s instinctual urge to protect his object of love, as his contemporaries do; rather, he encourages his audience to look beyond the heterosexual relationships to understand jealousy and its different manifestations within the heterosexual couple.
In The Conquest of Granada, he suggests that jealousy in men has to do more with man’s relationship with other men as well as political and economic forces than with heterosexual love and its implications.
Moreover, he does not neglect, or relegate to oblivion, those who view jealousy in a positive way; he allows them to present their argument freely and without being ridiculed.
Then he rationally and gradually dissuades them from their convictions.
Other playwrights of Restoration and eighteenth century (such as Davenant in The Siege of Rhodes, Etherege in The Man of Mode, Wicherley in The Country Wife, and Congreve in The Way of the World) inextricably bind jealousy to romantic love and present it as an intrinsic passion that is at odd with civilization.
So jealous men, these plays suggest, are not to be listened to but always to be railed on and reprimanded.
Contrary to this attitude, Dryden holds we have to listen to their viewpoint and to rationally disclose to them the potential evils of jealousy.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Rawashidah, Muhammad. 2008. John dryden’s the conquest of granada : the green-eyed monster reconsidered. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature،Vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-277675
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Rawashidah, Muhammad. John dryden’s the conquest of granada : the green-eyed monster reconsidered. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sep. 2008), pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-277675
American Medical Association (AMA)
Rawashidah, Muhammad. John dryden’s the conquest of granada : the green-eyed monster reconsidered. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. 2008. Vol. 1, no. 1, pp.1-21.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-277675
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 20-21
Record ID
BIM-277675