意象在戏剧中的重要性,由于意象分析理论家的大量工作和各种专著的问世,越来越引起人们的注意。在戏剧批评和戏剧研究方面,伦敦大学英国文学教授斯珀津(C.Spargeon)开创了分析莎士比亚剧作中的“意象”的评论流派,著有《莎士比亚的意象》(ShakesPeare’sImagery 1935)等专著。她说自己是在把每一剧本的每一意象都列表、分类、作卡片、数过三遍之后,才对这一问题引起注意的。她说:“我发现每一剧本都有一定类别的意象,而且这些意象大致也有一定比例……尤其在悲剧中,某些成群的意象好象在某一个别剧作中表现得特别突出,并由于这些意象的内容特殊 The importance of imagery in drama has drawn more and more attention due to the great work of image analysis theorists and the advent of various monographs. In drama criticism and drama studies, C. Spargeon, a professor of British literature at University College London, started a critique of Shakespearean plays “Shakespeare’s Image” (Shakespeare’s Imagery 1935) focus on. She said she was noticing the issue until she listed, classified, and made every card of every play in the series, three times. She said: "I find that each play has a certain category of images, and there is a certain proportion of these images. In particular, in the tragedy, certain groups of images appear to be particularly prominent in a particular drama, And because of the special content of these images