2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Reformation and The European Theatre--how did the dual mentality of converts change the drama?

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Project/Area Number	19K21636
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Review Section	Medium-sized Section 2:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
Research Institution	Meiji University
Principal Investigator	TSUJI Masahiro 明治大学, 経営学部, 専任教授 (00188533)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	奥香織明治大学, 文学部, 専任准教授 (30580427) 新谷崇茨城大学, 教育学部, 助教 (30755517) 仮屋浩子明治大学, 政治経済学部, 専任准教授 (50440136) 道家英穂専修大学, 文学部, 教授 (70198000)
Project Period (FY)	2019-06-28 – 2023-03-31
Keywords	宗教改革 / 演劇 / 改宗者 / コンベルソ / 宗派化 / 神秘劇
Outline of Final Research Achievements	By setting the beginning of modernity not with the French Revolution but with the Protestant Reformation, it became evident that the Reformation was a movement that shook the entire Western Europe, with simultaneous changes in the national systems occurring in the Nordic countries and England. In Spain, amidst the Counter-Reformation, many converts and descendants of converts were involved in theatrical activities. Conversely, in Italy, there were hardly any converts involved in theatrical activities; instead many church offcials (including secretaries to cardinals) and courtiers are involved. While professional playwrights emerged in England and Spain, Italy continued to have courtiers and men of letters involved in playwriting. The impact of the Reformation had a significant influence on theatrical activities in each country, but it became clear that the manifestation and direction of that impact were vastly different.
Free Research Field	英文学、イタリア文学、オペラ
Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements	近代の定義を見直すことで、宗教改革以降の演劇と国家の宗教統制、改宗者の関係を捉え直すことができた。16世紀、17世紀においては、演劇を含む諸芸術と、国家、パトロン、宗派との関係は19世紀以降と比較してより濃密であり、演劇なり、他の芸術ジャンルを独立したジャンルとして考えることは出来ない。この時期の演劇をイングランド、フランス、スペイン、イタリアを横断して比較することにより、国、地域によって、演劇の発展のスピードが異なり、国家体制との関係も大きく相違することが判った。西欧における宗教体制が、演劇をはじめとする諸芸術に対する世界観におよぼす根源的な影響の存在を明らかにすることが出来た。