Entr'acte Entertainment on the London Stage, 1660-1800

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K12328
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Miyoshi Riki 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 専任講師 (30780788)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: Restoration Theatre / Theatre History

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, I charted the development of entr'acte entertainment on the London stage from 1660 to 1800. Throughout the course of the project, I amassed information on entr’acte entertainment by extensively examining both primary and secondary sources. The findings of this research enabled me to publish three scholarly articles and present twice.

Free Research Field

English Literature

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

By drawing on a mass of historical and literary sources, this project has made an original contribution to knowledge by throwing light on the nature and changing content of entr’acte entertainment on the long eighteenth-century London stage.