Semiotics of the Garden Space in Shakespeare's Tragedy Romeo and Juliette

DOI

10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

theatre, drama, space, garden, scenery, orchard, tragedy, cultural semiotics, stage conventions

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the image of the garden in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliette from cultural, philological and semiotic points of view. The garden is interpreted here as the most significant part of the stage setting and the key symbol of the imagery of the play. Symbolic meaning of the garden image in Romeo and Juliette emerges at the point of convergence of several semiotic traditions and discourses—poetic, biblical, theatrical, theological and etc. The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the scope of contexts enabling the modern readers to perceive the implicit or unobvious levels of meaning of the garden image in the play with its reference to the semiotics of space and the main idea of Shakespeare’s tragedy. A special accent is made on the stage conventions of Elizabethan drama (as reflected in Romeo and Juliette). The methodology of the research follows the principles of semiotic and cultural analysis of the space and of the garden imagery developed by Dmitri Likhachev and Yuri Lotman.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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