A Study of the Circe Myth in Shakesepare's Plays

• Project/Area Number: 26370276
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Hirota Atsuhiko 京都大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (40292718)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: 英文学 / シェイクスピア / 神話 / キルケ / ヴェニス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has explored how William Shakespeare reconfigured the myth of Circe (a witch with a power to transform men into beasts originating in Classical literature) in his dramatic works written in the 16th and 17th centuries. The focus of study was especially on the variations of Circe representations in the plays located in the Mediterranean (the origin of the myth) and in England.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] IRCL, Universite Paul-Valery(フランス)
• [Int'l Joint Research] IRCL, Universite Paul-Valery(フランス)
• [Journal Article] A Devil Monk’s Prophecy and the Archbishop’s Encomium: Collaborative Representations of Witchcraft in Henry VIII (2017)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko HIrota
  • Journal Title: POETICA Volume: 87
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Book Review: Katherine Heavey, The Early Modern Medea (2016)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Journal Title: Cahiers Elisabethains Volume: 89 Issue: 1 Pages: 149-151
  • DOI: 10.1177/0184767815627766f
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Two Triangles for Denmark: International Relations in _Hamlet_ (2015)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Journal Title: Shakespeare Studies Volume: 53 Pages: 26-42
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Hamlet’s ‘Mobled Queene’: The Second Folio and Memories of Texts (2016)
  • Author(s): 廣田篤彦
  • Organizer: 第55回シェイクスピア学会 セミナー The Second Folio Revisited
  • Place of Presentation: 慶應義塾大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-10-08
• [Presentation] Hamlet 5.1 (2016)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Organizer: 9th World Shakespeare Congress
  • Place of Presentation: Shakespeare Centre
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-30
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 共作劇として見たHenry VIII (2016)
  • Author(s): 廣田篤彦
  • Organizer: 日本英文学会第88回大会 シンポジアム「演劇制作の現場から シェイクスピアと初期近代演劇の「共作」」
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-28
• [Presentation] イングランド人と文芸共和国―モア、シドニー、ミルトン、シェイクスピア（？） (2015)
  • Author(s): 廣田篤彦
  • Organizer: 京都大学文学研究科公開シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学（京都市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-12
• [Presentation] The Myth of Circe and Liminal Spaces: : The Marches in Henry IV, Part 1 (2014)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Organizer: Seminar: Shakespeare and Space, International Shakespeare Confrence
  • Place of Presentation: Stratford upon Avon
  • Year and Date: 2014-08-03 – 2014-08-08
• [Presentation] Venice, Barbary and Cyprus: Space and Myths in Othello (2014)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Organizer: Space of Performance and Performance of Space in Early Modern English Literature
  • Place of Presentation: Seoul
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-27 – 2014-06-28
• [Presentation] Venetian Enchantresses and Egyptian Sorcery: Transformations of the Circean Myth in Othello (2014)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Organizer: Shakespeare 450
  • Place of Presentation: Paris
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-21 – 2014-04-26
• [Presentation] Venetian Jasons, Parti-Coloured Lambs and a Tainted Wetrher: Ovine Tropes and the Golden Fleece Myth in The Merchant of Venice (2014)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Organizer: IRCL conferance
  • Place of Presentation: Montpellier
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-17
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Introduction of Bibliography and Palaeography Using the Meisei Shakespeare Database (2014)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Organizer: Workshop: Reading the First Folio Then and Now, Shakespeare Association of America
  • Place of Presentation: Vancouver
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-01 – 2014-04-05
• [Book] Interweaving myths in Shakespeare and his contemporaries: 'Ariadne's broken woof', ed. Charlotte Coffin, Agnes Lafont and Janice Valls-Russel (2017)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
• [Book] 'History and Historiography', Bruce Smith, ed., The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare (2016)
  • Author(s): Atsuhiko Hirota
  • Total Pages: 2031
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press