@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007591,
 author = {滝川, 睦 and TAKIGAWA, Mutsumu},
 journal = {名古屋大学文学部研究論集. 文学},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The aim of this paper is to analyse the magical effect enshrined in Dogberry’s words “remember that I am an / ass” (4.2.73-74) from the anthropological and historical viewpoint by focusing upon the interrelationship between the evil eye belief and the idea of slander in early modern England.  In this play, to “note” (1.1.150), to stare, and to gaze at someone tend to be transformed into slanderous acts which “affix to (one) the stigma or accusation of some fault” (OED “note” v.^2, 7.a). And indeed, the “queer, cosmic jealousy” (Welsford 66), alias the evil eye, empoisons Claudio who does “note” Hero and thereby drives her into supposed death by means of slander.  The features of slanders depicted in Much Ado about Nothing are as follows : First, they are contagious, and moreover, there are strong likelihood that the instances of “hearsay” (3.1.23) and intertextual relations with the actual defamation cases recorded in the church courts in early modern England.  This analysis of the magical belief in the evil eye and the idea of slander in Much Ado about Nothing leads to the conclusion that Dogberry the fool plays the part of mascot as well as scapegoat, upon whom the evil eye / slander is inflicted, and that his incantational phrase “remember that I am an / ass “ functions as a form of amulet which deflects and neutralizes the influence of slanders / evil eye.},
 pages = {37--49},
 title = {“But Masters, Remember That I Am an Ass” : Much Ado about Nothing における邪視と中傷 -},
 volume = {51},
 year = {2005}
}