2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Books of Homilies of the Church of England and Shakespeare
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23520327
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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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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Teikyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
GO Kenji 帝京大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (50266285)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | イギリス / 英文学 / シェイクスピア / キリスト教 / イングランド国教会 / 欽定説教集 / 書誌学 / ルネサンス演劇 |
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| Research Abstract |
I completed two English articles that explore the inter-textual relationships between Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and 'The Homily against the Fear of Death' in the Books of Homilies. Also, I found that the birth of the modern sartorial sense of the word 'fashion' can be traced back to the latter half of the sixteenth-century in England, and that it most probably happened due to the repeated use of the word 'fashion' in 'The Homily against the Excess of Apparel'. I also came across a little-known 1685 broadsheet of anti-Popery Homilies of the Church of England in the Folger Library, Washington, D.C.,and completed a full-length English article on its historical singnificance.
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