Why only actresses did not black up in the long eighteenth century theatre?

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21720085
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kitami Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	FUKUSHI Wataru 北見工業大学, 工学部, 准教授 (10431397)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2011)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000) Fiscal Year 2010: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000) Fiscal Year 2009: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords	英米文学
Research Abstract	This study explores one core question : Why only actresses did not black up in the long eighteenth century theatre? To answer this, I examined two sets of ideas : a discourse concerning theatrical convention and aesthetic recognition of blackness ; a powerrelationship in representing women and racial others. This study has shown that racial otherness was manipulated in the long eighteenth century theatre in order to make a profit from the theatre production, and that in that theatre a mixed ideology of racism and commercialism was generated, regenerated and distributed.

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