2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Cultural Study of Songs in Early Modern English Plays
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24520264
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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 | Iwate University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 演劇 / シェイクスピア |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Major findings of this study are as follows: 1. Due to yet unstable system of musical notation those days, dramas introducing numbers of songs have their difficulties to be circulated into “reading” public, which might have guaranteed the superiority of stage over page at least for limited time of early modern era. 2. Songs, because of their requirement of performers’ observing rhyme and melodies, might effectively put under control otherwise possibly excessive comical improvisation by actors with clown parts. 3. While as a part of dramas, inserted songs, with their current circulation per se, sometimes take the audience outside the plot of the plays. As a result, various forms of ironies, multiple meanings, parodies and satire would reasonably be imposed, which should give plays a kind of richness.
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| Free Research Field |
近世英文学
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