本論文嘗試以傅柯自我科技(technologies of the self)的理論來探討《瑪樊女公爵》、《咆哮女郎》、和《光榮的宮女》中的自我關注。傅柯自我科技的理論衍生自希臘羅馬時期自我關注的倫理學，他確信希臘自我關注的倫理觀是一種生存美學，有助於現代人脫離性解放的途徑來追求自由。本文首先試著建構希臘羅馬時期自我關注的倫理觀在其它時代實踐的指導原則，尤其是前現代時期 (the early modern period)。自我科技和權力科技(technologies of power)是相互交錯的，它們的交界點就在於治理術(governmentality)，因為主體是在統治階層治理策略引導下行塑而成的，但同時又在自我治理(self-government)下作了調整。主體必須了解統治階層的治理策略才能不受在上位者完全的控制，並進一步引導他人來達到自己的目的。要跳脫在上位者的掌控，則必需培養一種批判的哲學態度。此種批判的哲學態度可以由三方面來進行：思想上的批判(an attitude of critique)，行動上的反抗(the plebeian quality)，以及語言上的批評(the practice of parrhesia)。本文接著運用以上所導出的實踐原則來探討三篇文本中女主角的自我關注，切入的場域則是傅柯提出的自我關係中的四個向度，其一為本體論(ontology)，其二為義務論(deontology)，其三為工夫論(ascetics)，其四為目的論(teleology)。它分析不同社會身份的三位女主角如何透過各種策略和非傳統的生活型態來實踐自我關注。

This dissertation aims to explore the practice of the care of the self in three Renaissance plays by means of Michel Foucault’s theory of the technologies of the self derived from the Greco-Roman ethics of the care of the self. Foucault asserts that the Greek ethics of the care of the self offers a beneficial viewpoint to the modern investigation of freedom outside of sexual liberation. This study first constructs the guiding principles for the possible realization of the Greco-Roman ethics of the care of the self in other epochs, especially the early modern era. The technologies of the self are interconnected with the technologies of power, and their contact point resides in governmentality. The subject is shaped by the governing schema of the ruling authorities while concurrently being modified by the self through self-government. The subject must comprehend the governing tactics of the authorities in order not to be governed too much and can further govern other people for personal purposes. To be able to do so is to be equipped with a philosophical ethos of critique, which can be executed in three perspectives: thought – an attitude of criticism, action – the plebian quality, and words – the practice of parrhesia. The study then applies the aforementioned guiding principles to discuss the three heroines in terms of the four aspects proposed by Foucault in the relationship to the self: the determination of the ethical substance, the mode of subjection, the means of ethical works, and the telso of the ethical subject. It investigates how the three heroines of different social statuses – aristocrat, citizen, gentry –fulfill the practice of the care of the self through various strategies and unconventional life styles.

Chapter One: Introduction ................................1

Chapter Two: The Care of the Self in The Duchess of Malfi....................................................36


Chapter Three: The Care of the Self in The Roaring Girl.....................................................75


Chapter Four: The Care of the Self in The Maid of Honor...................................................111


Chapter Five: Conclusion ..............................147



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