| 主題 Topic | Audience Reactions to Sermons, Enarratio (Analysis and Exposition of Texts) |
| 書刊名 Title | House of Fame The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 作者 Author | Geoffrey Chaucer (edited by W.W. Skeat ) |
| 出版社 Publisher | Oxford |
| 出版年 Year | 1899 |
| 語言 Language | English |
| 裝訂 Binding | □平裝 Paperback □ 精裝 Hardcover |
| 頁數 Pages | |
| ISBN (10 / 13) | |
| Bibliography Reference | (STC, Duff, GW . . .) |
| 來源網址 Web Link | http://omacl.org/Houseoffame/ |
| 劇本簡介撰稿者 | 王明月、蔡幸紋 |
| 撰寫日期 Date | 2014.12.23 |
A. 簡介 Introduction (within 500 words, Chinese or English)
受義大利文學如但丁、薄伽丘等詩人影響，十四世紀英國詩人喬叟效仿但丁《神曲》以夢境文學形式寫成《名人堂》。此作品以一位感嘆自己詩意與頭腦皆不靈光的敘述者的角度，描述自己夢境中所見所聞。十二月十號的夜間，敘述者夢見自己來到愛神維納斯的玻璃宮殿，裡頭裝飾的精雕細琢的各個歷史與文學中的名人以及其豐功偉績。突然，出現了一隻金鷹，凌空捉起敘述者，擔任其嚮導帶領他省思名與利的本質，以及詩人應當成為愛神的使徒，竭力寫出讚揚「愛」的詩作。藉由檢視歷史上的作家名人，敘述者因而反思詩人角色以及作品如何在歷史中流芳千古。
B. 文本摘錄 Extracts (4-6 Pages)
(Book I,496-508; Book II, 509-640)
496 Tho was I war, lo! at the laste,
497 That faste be the sonne, as hye
498 As kenne mighte I with myn ye,
499 Me thoughte I saw an egle sore,
500 But that hit semed moche more
501 Then I had any egle seyn.
502 But this as sooth as deeth, certeyn,
503 Hit was of golde, and shoon so bright,
504 That never saw men such a sighte,
505 But-if the heven hadde y-wonne
506 Al newe of golde another sonne;
507 So shoon the egles fethres brighte,
508 And somwhat dounward gan hit lighte.
Explicit liber primus.
Book II Incipit liber secundus.
509 Now herkneth, every maner man
510 That English understonde can,
511 And listeth of my dreem to lere;
512 For now at erste shul ye here
513 So selly an avisioun,
514 That Isaye, ne Scipioun,
515 Ne King Nabugodonosor,
516 Pharo, Turnus, ne Elcanor,
517 Ne mette swich a dreem as this!
518 Now faire blisfull, O Cipris,
519 So be my favour at this tyme!
520 And ye, me to endyte and ryme
521 Helpeth, that on Parnaso dwelle
522 By Elicon the clere welle.
523 O Thought, that wroot al that I mette,
524 And in the tresorie hit shette
525 Of my brayn! now shal men see
526 If any vertu in thee be,
527 To tellen al my dreem aright;
528 Now kythe thyn engyne and might!
The Dream.
529 This egle, of which I have yow told,
530 That shoon with fethres as of gold,
531 Which that so hye gan to sore,
532 I gan beholde more and more,
533 To see hir the beautee and the wonder;
534 But never was ther dint of thonder,
535 Ne that thing that men calle foudre,
536 That smoot somtyme a tour to poudre,
537 And in his swifte coming brende,
538 That so swythe gan descende,
539 As this foul, whan hit behelde
540 That I a-roume was in the felde;
541 And with his grimme pawes stronge,
542 Within his sharpe nayles longe,
543 Me, fleinge, at a swappe he hente,
544 And with his sours agayn up wente,
545 Me caryinge in his clawes starke
546 As lightly as I were a larke,
547 How high I can not telle yow,
548 For I cam up, I niste how.
549 For so astonied and a-sweved
550 Was every vertu in my heved,
551 What with his sours and with my drede,
552 That al my feling gan to dede;
553 For-why hit was to greet affray.
554 Thus I longe in his clawes lay,
555 Til at the laste he to me spak
556 In mannes vois, and seyde, `Awak!
557 And be not so a-gast, for shame!'
558 And called me tho by my name,
559 And, for I sholde the bet abreyde --
560 Me mette -- `Awak,' to me he seyde,
561 Right in the same vois and stevene
562 That useth oon I coude nevene;
563 And with that vois, soth for to sayn,
564 My minde cam to me agayn;
565 For hit was goodly seyd to me,
566 So nas hit never wont to be.
567 And herewithal I gan to stere,
568 And he me in his feet to bere,
569 Til that he felte that I had hete,
570 And felte eek tho myn herte bete.
571 And tho gan he me to disporte,
572 And with wordes to comforte,
573 And sayde twyes, `Seynte Marie!
574 Thou art noyous for to carie,
575 And nothing nedeth hit, parde!
576 For al-so wis god helpe me
577 As thou non harm shalt have of this;
578 And this cas, that betid thee is,
579 Is for thy lore and for thy prow; --
580 Let see! darst thou yet loke now?
581 Be ful assured, boldely,
582 I am thy frend.' And therwith I
583 Gan for to wondren in my minde.
584 `O god,' thoughte I, `that madest kinde,
585 Shal I non other weyes dye?
586 Wher Ioves wol me stellifye,
587 Or what thing may this signifye?
588 I neither am Enok, ne Elye,
589 Ne Romulus, ne Ganymede
590 That was y-bore up, as men rede,
591 To hevene with dan Iupiter,
592 And maad the goddes boteler.'
593 Lo! this was tho my fantasye!
594 But he that bar me gan espye
595 That I so thoghte, and seyde this: --
596 `Thou demest of thy-self amis;
597 For Ioves is not ther-aboute --
598 I dar wel putte thee out of doute --
599 To make of thee as yet a sterre.
600 But er I bere thee moche ferre,
601 I wol thee telle what I am,
602 And whider thou shalt, and why I cam
603 To done this, so that thou take
604 Good herte, and not for fere quake.'
605 `Gladly,' quod I. -- `Now wel,' quod he: --
606 `First I, that in my feet have thee,
607 Of which thou hast a feer and wonder,
608 Am dwellinge with the god of thonder,
609 Which that men callen Iupiter,
610 That dooth me flee ful ofte fer
611 To do al his comaundement.
612 And for this cause he hath me sent
613 To thee: now herke, by thy trouthe!
614 Certeyn, he hath of thee routhe,
615 That thou so longe trewely
616 Hast served so ententifly
617 His blinde nevew Cupido,
618 And fair Venus goddesse also,
619 Withoute guerdoun ever yit,
620 And nevertheles has set thy wit --
621 Although that in thy hede ful lyte is --
622 To make bokes, songes, dytees,
623 In ryme, or elles in cadence,
624 As thou best canst, in reverence
625 Of Love, and of his servants eke,
626 That have his servise soght, and seke;
627 And peynest thee to preyse his art,
628 Althogh thou haddest never part;
629 Wherfor, al-so god me blesse,
630 Ioves halt hit greet humblesse
631 And vertu eek, that thou wolt make
632 A-night ful ofte thyn heed to ake,
633 In thy studie so thou wrytest,
634 And ever-mo of love endytest,
635 In honour of him and preysinges,
636 And in his foIkes furtheringes,
637 And in hir matere al devysest,
638 And noght him nor his folk despysest,
639 Although thou mayst go in the daunce
640 Of hem that him list not avaunce.
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