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A Study of Garden Scenes in English Renaissance Plays

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18520162
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

ICHIKAWA Mariko  Tohoku University, Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Professor (80142785)

Project Period (FY) 2006 – 2007
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,880,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
KeywordsActing Space / Play texts / Staging / Locale / Garden
Research Abstract

Through examining early modem English play texts, I have collected garden scenes. It is interesting to discover that most events taking place in these garden scenes can be divided into the following 5 kinds: a. romantic encounters; b. intimate talks and confidential conversations; c. melancholic meditations; d. eavesdropping; e. intrusion.
Clearly, while writing plays, Shakespeare and his contemporaries had in their minds the traditional idea and image of the garden that had been mediated to them through a variety of literary and cultural traditions.
A close analysis of these garden scenes has shown the following important things about their staging.
1. A verbal reference to a garden could create a particular atmosphere on the stage, transforming the stage space into a private, quiet, but potentially vulnerable place.
2. The garden setting could enhance the secret, romantic, meditative, or ominous mood of the scene.
3. Even if, however, the dialogue includes no specific reference to the garden setting, the scene's locality might somehow be suggested indirectly by non-verbal means.
4. The structure of the stage was useful for staging garden scenes. If designated, a stage door, the stage balcony, the curtained space, and the stage posts could serve variously as the garden door, a window over the garden, an arbour, and trees.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2007 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2006 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2008 2007 2006

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results)

  • [Journal Article] "Enter Brutus in his Orchard": Garden Scenes in Early Modern English Plays2008

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Ichikawa
    • Journal Title

      The Shakespearean International Yearbook 8(発表確定)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Enter Brutus in his Orchard'': Garden Scenes in Early Modern English Plays2008

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Ichikawa
    • Journal Title

      Shakespearean International Yearbook 8

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] "Enter Brutus in his Orchard": Garden Scenes in Early Modern English Plays2008

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Ichikawa
    • Journal Title

      The Shakespearean International Yearbook 8(採録決定)

    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The Staging of The Comedy of Errors, Act 3, Scene 12007

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Ichikawa
    • Journal Title

      国際文化研究科論集 15

      Pages: 81-97

    • NAID

      120002166337

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Annual Research Report 2007 Final Research Report Summary
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The Staging of The Comedy of Errors, Act 3, Scene 12007

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Ichikawa
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies 15

      Pages: 81-97

    • NAID

      120002166337

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2007 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Ware the Doors Open or Closed? : The Use of the Stage Doors in the Shakespearean Theatre2006

    • Author(s)
      Mariko Ichikawa
    • Journal Title

      Theatre Notebook 60

      Pages: 5-29

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2006-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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