Abstract This essay uses memory to cut through conventional, binary distinctions that seem to offer analytical approaches to Egmont, but ultimately disappoint. It contrasts memory and history as markers of different attitudes to the past, and ways of knowing, among the drama’s characters. After showing that Egmont’s appeal is based on the affective immediacy that distinguishes memory from history, the essay argues that he is as much a ‘new politician’ as Alba and Oranien, well aware of the political power of the imagination, fully conscious of what the Spanish occupation means in Brussels, and as capable as his antagonists of a calculated response. This approach also allows a reading of the fifth act, and of Egmont’s final vision, that is consistent with the rest of the play.

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埃格蒙特与记忆

摘要本文使用记忆来突破常规的二进制区别，这似乎为埃格蒙特提供了分析方法，但最终令人失望。它将记忆和历史作为戏剧人物之间对过去态度和认识方式的不同标志进行对比。在证明埃格蒙特的诉求基于区分记忆与历史的情感直接性之后，文章认为他像阿尔巴和奥拉宁一样是“新政客”，他充分意识到想象力的政治力量，完全意识到西班牙的职业在布鲁塞尔意味着手段，并且有能力与他的对手一道做出有计划的回应。这种方法还允许阅读第五幕以及埃格蒙特的最终愿景，这与剧本的其余部分是一致的。