This paper is a prospectus that proposes an attempt to explore some subversive moments in Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s plays. Among those subversive phenomena, this paper focuses mainly on ironical scenes of education rendered in a form analogous t...
This paper is a prospectus that proposes an attempt to explore some subversive moments in Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s plays. Among those subversive phenomena, this paper focuses mainly on ironical scenes of education rendered in a form analogous to catechism, i.e. a way of finding truth or delivering meaningful messages through conversation between two characters. It is notable that education is a substantial means of transmitting traditional value system to posterity, but the educational moments analyzed in this paper are fairly ironical due to subversive and even transgressive elements and outcomes occurred in the course of catechism. In so doing, this paper will explore a clash of value system during the English Renaissance period, the tension between humanists’ idealism and pragmatists’ realism, as an inevitable and concomitant phenomenon during the transition period.