2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of the Multiple Plot Structure of English Renaissance Drama in Terms of Audience Involvement in the Drama
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22520221
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Hirosaki University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 英国ルネサンス演劇 / 多元的プロット / 劇場と観客 / 修道僧ベイコンとバンゲイ / "state"(大学、国家、身分) / フルゲンスとルークレース / 世界劇場 / pageant |
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| Research Abstract |
This study focuses upon the multiple structure of English Renaissance Drama in which two or more different plots are presented in a play. This study explores the raison d’etre of the multiple structure in analyzing the two English Renaissance Drama, Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and Henry Medwall’s Fulgens and Lucres by paying close attention to the linguistic texture of the plays. This research reveals (1) that in Greene’s play the idea of state provides the focus point in which several seemingly desperate plots of the play are meaningfully interconnected and (2) that in Fulgens and Lucres side action of A, B, and Ancilla who are also real servants of John Morton, serves not only as a kind of comic relief but also as a "pageant" in which the theme of the primary action of the play is represented in vulgar situations in everyday life of English people.
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