Cognitive Approaches to World Shakespeare Performance Studies: Challenges and Possibilites

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K02520
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tokyo Woman's Christian University
• Principal Investigator: HAMANA EMI 東京女子大学, 現代教養学部, 教授 (20149355)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 世界シェイクスピア上演研究 / 認知学的アプローチ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Conventional studies of world Shakespearean performances have primarily sought to elucidate the senses (especially visual and auditory) and perceptions of players and audiences--how players perform (show, speak, or move) and how audiences feel and react. This study elucidated, albeit in part, the impact of the performances on audience cognition (human intellectual faculty such as knowledge representation, memory, knowledge acquisition, and concept formation). It also suggested that staging may extend cognition, especially in the case of immersive plays such as Sleep No More, which are staged through continuous feedback loops, and in this regard should further promote cognitive approaches.

Free Research Field

英語圏文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

世界シェイクスピア上演研究と21世紀に新たに重視されている分野である認知学的アプローチを接合し、シェイクスピア作品の上演の新たな意義を積極的に見出すだけでなく、その世界各地における多様な上演を今日の世界が必要としている認知学的実践の促進に資するような理論的・実践的な方法をも探求した。