Frontiers of Theatre Studies
FTS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.28-36.
Print ISSN: 3106-8073; Online ISSN: 3106-8081
Journal homepage: https://www.ftsjournal.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/fts260104pgtvs
肖恩·奥凯西戏剧中的两性刻画与暴力拓扑学
——以“都柏林三部曲”为例
徐梦蝶 (Xu Mengdie)
摘要：肖恩·奥凯西延续了辛格的暗黑写作风格，是爱尔兰戏剧暴力叙事的开山鼻祖之一，他以粗粝的口语描写都柏林贫民窟的生活真相。奥凯西的无产阶级立场和大胆戏剧实验注定其与叶芝最终走向分道扬镳。两性角色的不同塑造成为探索奥凯西社会思想的重要切口。戏剧中两性角色的形象变迁与作者本人反战思维的发展紧密关联。本文借约翰·加尔通三角暴力模型分析奥凯西早期现实主义戏剧中对直接暴力和结构性暴力的反思，以及其对两性角色的各自刻画。奥凯西意识到战争年代女性面临的多重暴力威胁以及男性虚伪懦弱的伪英雄主义，通过刻画爱尔兰战乱时期丰富细腻的底层群像，奥凯西借此使创作主旨回归到人性最初，这也是其区别于叶芝、辛格的独到之处。
关键词：爱尔兰戏剧；反战文学；现实主义
作者简介：徐梦蝶，北京外国语大学博士在读，研究方向为爱尔兰文学。电子邮箱：2926443154@qq.com。
Title: The Portrayal of Gender and The Topology of Violence in Seán O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy
Abstract: Seán O’Casey continued the dark writing style of J. M. Synge and pioneered the narrative of violence in Irish theatre. He represented the reality of Dublin’s city slums with coarse, direct spoken language. It is his alignment with the proletariat and his bold dramatic experiments that determined his departure from W. B. Yeats. The varied portrayal of female and male characters in O’Casey’s plays becomes a key entry point for analyzing the writer’s ideological stance. The development of female and male images in his plays is closely linked to O’Casey’s evolving anti-war mindset. Guided by Johan Galtung’s triangle model of violence, this essay analyzes O’Casey’s reflection on direct violence and structural violence within his early realistic plays and his differential portrayal of the two genders. The author highlights the multiple threats of violence faced by women as a relatively vulnerable group during wartime, and the pseudo-heroism enacted by male hypocrites. By depicting a detailed and enriched group portrait of the lower-class during Ireland’s war, O’Casey’s thematic focus returns to fundamental humanity, which distinguishes him from Yeats and Synge.
Keywords: Irish plays; anti-war literature; realism
Author Biography: Xu Mengdie, Ph.D. candidate at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Research area: Irish literature. E-mail: 2926443154@qq.com
Received: 16 Jan 2026 / Revised: 14 May 2026 / Accepted: 05 Jun 2026 / Published online: 30 May 2026 / Print published: 30 Jun 2026.
