벤 존슨의 『새 여관』: 연극 속에 변모된 신플라톤주의 살롱 문화 (The New Inn: Dramatic Transformation of Neoplatonist Salon Culture)

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초록

The New Inn is an eclectic comedy which shows both realistic and romantic elements in the backdrop of the inn. The play divides characters into two groups, namely ‘fine’ and ‘wild’ companies, and it places them in different floors of the inn. Relegated downstairs, the wild company ply their routine trade, representing realist popular culture. In contrast, aristocratic guests throw a French-style salon party, producing romantic ambience. Generally, Neoplatonist culture indicates French fashions regarding Platonic love which was practiced as pastimes in the courtly circle of the Caroline period. Originally, this French culture was cultivated at the salon of the Hôtel de Rambouillet in the early seventeenth century. In the play, the central scenes are occupied by the Court of Love in which the participants discuss love and valour. Their discussion is conducted in the form of dialogue modeled on Plato’s Symposium. Along with Plato, their thesis of Platonic love is influenced by the Florentine philosopher, Marsilio Ficino, who proposed Platonic love as a divine doctrine by combining Plato’s idealism with Christianity. With the progress of the Court of Love, however, the play transforms the thesis of Platonic love and registers the two protagonists’ psychological development towards romantic attachment to each other. In French salons, Platonic love was practiced as a didactic method for a coterie of admirers to refine their emotional investment through tension between the excitement and denial of love passion, which is orchestrated by an idealized woman. But the denouement of the play shows romantic consummation of love affairs between Lady Frampul and Lord Lovel, which has developed in the course of their role-playing in the Court of Love. In doing so, the play suggests the motif of theatrum mundi as its main concern of thematic development.

영어초록

The New Inn is an eclectic comedy which shows both realistic and romantic elements in the backdrop of the inn. The play divides characters into two groups, namely ‘fine’ and ‘wild’ companies, and it places them in different floors of the inn. Relegated downstairs, the wild company ply their routine trade, representing realist popular culture. In contrast, aristocratic guests throw a French-style salon party, producing romantic ambience. Generally, Neoplatonist culture indicates French fashions regarding Platonic love which was practiced as pastimes in the courtly circle of the Caroline period. Originally, this French culture was cultivated at the salon of the Hôtel de Rambouillet in the early seventeenth century. In the play, the central scenes are occupied by the Court of Love in which the participants discuss love and valour. Their discussion is conducted in the form of dialogue modeled on Plato’s Symposium. Along with Plato, their thesis of Platonic love is influenced by the Florentine philosopher, Marsilio Ficino, who proposed Platonic love as a divine doctrine by combining Plato’s idealism with Christianity. With the progress of the Court of Love, however, the play transforms the thesis of Platonic love and registers the two protagonists’ psychological development towards romantic attachment to each other. In French salons, Platonic love was practiced as a didactic method for a coterie of admirers to refine their emotional investment through tension between the excitement and denial of love passion, which is orchestrated by an idealized woman. But the denouement of the play shows romantic consummation of love affairs between Lady Frampul and Lord Lovel, which has developed in the course of their role-playing in the Court of Love. In doing so, the play suggests the motif of theatrum mundi as its main concern of thematic development.

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