2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Themes and political and religious diving forces of Islamic plays' conversion in early modern England
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21K00359
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Tohoku Gakuin University (2022-2023)
Morioka Junior College,Iwate Prefectural University (2021) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | イスラーム / 17世紀イギリス演劇 / 貿易 / 改宗 / 植民地化 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examines plays on the subject of Muslim conversion staged in early modern England. The results are that Protestant conversion is shown as a distant reality in Goerge Wilkins, John Day and William Rowle's "The Travels of the Three English Brothers", that the Portuguese colonizing project based on military force and conversion is recognized in John Fletcher's "The Island Princess," and that the Jesuit's conversion practice based on 'visible' practices such as sacraments and baptism in Philip Massinger's "The Renegado" are shown as the reality in early modern period. In addition, this study revealed that the Moorish conversion in his "The Fair Maid of the West, Part II" is depicted nostalgically, in sharp contrast to the Catholic practices of conversion at that time.
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| Free Research Field |
初期近代イギリス演劇
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
欧米諸国とイスラム諸国との関係は、和解の方向に向かっているものの、今なお中東地域の紛争などにおいて、その亀裂は十分に解決していない。特にイングランドとイスラム諸国との関係については、モロッコやトルコとの商業的な結びつきに始まり、16世紀末にはスペインを標的として軍事的な同盟に発展した。ときの女王エリザベスの親モロッコ・トルコ政策に対して、劇作家たちはイスラム教徒を文化的・宗教的な脅威とみなし、彼らを残虐非道な人物として仕立て上げた。本研究では、イングランドとイスラム諸国との亀裂の解決の糸口として、これら劇作家たちの改宗を基盤とした演劇作品のもつ意義を確認した。
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