本論文檢視湯瑪士‧戴可及湯瑪士‧米德頓在詹姆士國王時期所書寫的城市喜劇，以探討社會動盪與空間感。城市喜劇作為一種受歡迎的文類當可視為十七世紀初的社會縮影。戴可與米德頓以倫敦市民的眼光，洞悉倫敦城的變動，並且將之諷刺於創作。劇本誇大地呈現道德的衰微，也重置不同階級、職業、與性別之空間。戴可與米德頓不只娛樂大眾，同時也批判了岌岌可危的社會秩序、空間裡的道德觀及性別角色。
本論文透過四個章節審視社會不同層面的問題。第一章概觀了歷史文獻與行為禮儀之書，以重構作品中的社會背景，目的為探查早期詹姆士王時期社會動盪的可能原因。第二章分析不同社會階層的人物，以顯現統治階級與漸興的商人階級之間的道德僭越。第三章著重於以空間的視角，審視社會中的各式衝突。我借用亨利‧列斐伏爾對於公共與私密空間的觀察，佐以我對「管制空間」的定義，提供戴可與米德頓作品新的詮釋觀點。末章專注於空間中的性別角色。本論文藉由四部城市喜劇中的女性，主張女性所表現的自主性可作為抗衡男性威權的一大立基。
經由四部城市喜劇之探討，本論文試圖提供十七世紀英國文藝復興戲劇的詮釋觀點，希冀在此領域為台灣研究貢獻微薄之力。

The thesis interrogates the social instability and spatialities by investigating Thomas Dekker’s and Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean city comedies. City Comedy as a popular genre can be viewed as the miniature of the society in the early seventeenth-century Jacobean England. As Londoners, Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton observe the change of the city and satirize it in their plays. The decline of morality and the rearrangement of different social spaces in various classes, occupations, and genders are dramatically presented. Dekker and Middleton not only entertain the public but also criticize the social (dis)order, the space of (im)morality, and space of genders at stake.
The four chapters in this thesis examine different aspects of the society through four city comedies. The first chapter surveys historical documents and conduct books to restore Dekker’s and Middleton’s texts to their social contexts, the purpose of which is to scrutinize the possible reasons for social instability in the early Jacobean era. The second chapter analyzes the characters in different social strata to showcase the moral transgressions of the ruling class and the rising merchant class. The third chapter focuses on the social conflicts from the perspective of space. I borrow Henri Lefebvre’s observations on public and private space and I define the concept of “the confined space” so as to interpret anew Dekker’s and Middleton’s plays. The final chapter pays attention to the space of gender. By investigating women’s roles, the thesis argues that women’s individuality is shown as a standpoint to contrast men’s authority. Through the four chapters, I attempt to provide a new reading of the English Renaissance in the early seventeenth century and to contribute to the related research in Taiwan.

學位論文審定書 i
Acknowledgements ii
摘要 iii
Abstract iv
Introduction
A New Reading of Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton 1
Chapter I
Unsettling England since 1604 19
Chapter II
The Unstable Social Structure and (Im)moral Citizens 31
Chapter III
Voices of the Land and Conflicting Geographies of (Im)morality 50
Chapter IV
Uncommon Women in Gendered Space: Daughter, Mother, Wife, and Whore 76
Conclusion 101
References 103

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