オスカー・ワイルドの『ヴェラ』

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  • Oscar Wilde's <i>Vera</i> and Uchida Roan's <i>Higeki Kakumei Fujin</i>
  • オスカー・ワイルドの『ヴェラ』イギリスと日本における作品受容と社会的背景
  • オスカー ワイルド ノ ヴェラ イギリス ト ニホン ニ オケル サクヒン ジュヨウ ト シャカイテキ ハイケイ
  • ―イギリスと日本における作品受容と社会的背景―

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<p>Vera; or The Nihilistsis Oscar Wilde’s first dramatic work. Privately published in 1880, the play was to be performed first in 1881,a year marked by the assassinations of Tsar Alexander II and American President James Garfield, and terrorism worldwide. Cancellation three weeks before its opening undeniably reflected lack of public acceptance for the play, which hints at a sympathetic rendering of the Tsar’s assassin. An American production in 1883 similarly ended in failure, and Vera has not been performed in the United States or Britain since.</p><p>　Vera was introduced to Japan for the first time in November 1911. Translated by critic and novelist Uchida Roan as ‘Higeki Kakumei Fujin’，it was serialized over two months in the Tokyo Asahi Shinbun, a leading daily newspaper. In January that same year, well-known anarchist Kotoku Shusui had been charged with high treason for planning the assassination of the Meiji Emperor (1852-1912) and sentenced to death. The secrecy surrounding the hearings and the hasty execution had a major unsettling effect on society. After collecting information from many people involved in the case, Uchida concluded that the charge had been fabricated by the authorities.</p><p>　In an unprecedented translator's foreword published three days before the translation began to run, Roan stated that the play made no political statement, but the fact that Roan and the Tokyo Asahi Shinbun collaborated in publishing the translation to the very end can be considered as expression of protest at a time when freedom of speech was clearly in danger. The fact that in Japan the play was included in the collected works of Oscar Wilde published in Japan in 1920 and published again as a monograph in 1932 can be seen as an indication of the high level of public interest in the Kotoku case.</p>

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  • 比較文学

    比較文学 44 (0), 21-34, 2002

    日本比較文学会

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