虽然神并未在莎剧《特洛伊罗斯和克瑞西达》中扮演重要角色,我们还是可以在剧中发现巴比伦的爱与战争女神伊师塔的身影。也许莎士比亚并不了解这位古代的神灵,但伊师塔作为一股统治性的力量,始终回旋在特洛伊的上空。海伦是她的祭司,潘达罗斯是她的预言者,而忒尔西忒斯从反面强调了她的威力:“奸淫,奸淫;永远是战争和奸淫,别的什么都不时髦”(五幕二场)。莎士比亚仅仅抓住战争和奸淫两个主题,从爱情入手,在战争中重新解释了特洛伊的神话。 Although God did not play an important role in Shakespeare’s Troyes and Kresida, we can still find Babylonian love and the goddess Ishtar in the play. Perhaps Shakespeare did not understand this ancient god, but Ishi Tata, as a dominant force, has always swirled over Troy. Helen was her priest, Pandaros was her prophet, and Tethys stressed her power from the opposite: “Adultery, adultery; always war and adultery, nothing else fashionable” Five screens two). Shakespeare seized on the two themes of war and adultery. Starting with love, he redefined Troy’s myth in the war.