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From Sin to Crime : A Study of Early Modem English Ballads, Pamphlets, and Drama

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610547
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionIwate University

Principal Investigator

SAKAINO Naoki  Iwate University, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (90187005)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywordsrepresentation of 'otherness' / English Renaissance / English theater / popular culture / 世俗パンフレット / ルネサンス英国演劇 / シェイクスピア
Research Abstract

This study originally aimed at deeper and wider understandings of contexts surrounding early modern English city comedies. The conflicts to be dealt with in those dramas drastically shifts from that between the God and Everyman in early modern religious plays and Interludes, while late Elizabethan and Jacobean city comedies seeks their fuel for plot-driving conflicts in human-human relationships over economical monster called Capitalism. That is, Capitalism transforms the Crime-Punishment-Salvation scheme in religious plays into that between those who have and those who owes, which leads to the advance of outsiders or drop-outs of economical system -they, as newly invented enemy to the society, would accordingly be treated as outsiders of social order. Thus many secular pamphlets and ballads treat such outsiders as "strangers" : they are signified with strange tongue called 'pedlers French' and through the course of pamphlet journalism, they are transformed from the threat to the socie … More ty to comical scapegoats.
Significantly enough, such minor pamphlets gradually build up the mainstream history ; at last, Raphael Holinshed's Chronicle contains William Harrison's adaptation of Thomas Harman's 'Canting Dictionary', which, however, further goes back to John Awdelay at nearest. History with large 'H" thus sometimes contributes to the fabrication of outsiders : Gypsies, Pedlers, or other economic 'minorities' to be systematically excluded and banned by the rest of the society.
The form of pamphlets is no less important than its contents : two sets of characters (i. e. English (Black letters) and Roman (white letters) coexist. While most of those pamphlets are printed with Black letter, Pedlers French are shown with Roman characters. With the cases of Vulgate Bible or writings of Christian Humanism, Roman letters would potentially carry some connotation of 'not necessarily-desired new trends for variety of human intellect.'
As for ballads which tend to be conservative in its nature, both old and new discourses concerning Sin and crime could naturally be co-operated to form a strong basso-continuo which supports the 'moral' of the pamphlets. On dramas, we would see such pedlers treated as wise fools, malcontents, or Tom of Bedlam ; that might somehow signifies the drawbacks of 'moral scale'. In short, some dramas restores those seeming outsiders' honor and virtue, also in comic atmosphere. Less

Report

(5 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2005 2003 Other

All Journal Article (8 results) Publications (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] 犯罪ジャーナリズムの演劇性-エリザベス朝世俗パンフレット事情に着いての考察2005

    • Author(s)
      境野直樹
    • Journal Title

      岩手大学英語教育論集 7

      Pages: 68-103

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] シェイクスピアの「聖域」を切り崩す2005

    • Author(s)
      境野直樹
    • Journal Title

      岩手大学英語教育論集 7

      Pages: 118-128

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Theatricality in Crime Journalism : On Elizabethan Secular Pamphlets2005

    • Author(s)
      Naoki SAKAINO
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of English Education, Iwate University (in Japanese) No.7

      Pages: 88-103

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Breaking Into Shakespearean 'Sanctuary' : A Review Essay on Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, Co-Author.2005

    • Author(s)
      Naoki SAKAINO
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of English Education, Iwate University (in Japanese) No.7

      Pages: 118-128

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 犯罪ジャーナリズムの演劇性 -エリザベス朝世俗パンフレット事情についての考察2005

    • Author(s)
      境野 直樹
    • Journal Title

      岩手大学英語教育論集 No.7

      Pages: 88-103

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] シェイクスピアの「聖域」を切り崩す(Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, Co-Authorをめぐって)2005

    • Author(s)
      境野 直樹
    • Journal Title

      岩手大学英語教育論集 No.7

      Pages: 118-128

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 再び作者の磁場へ-シェイクスピアのキャノンをめぐって2003

    • Author(s)
      境野直樹
    • Journal Title

      岩手大学英語教育論集 5

      Pages: 77-88

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Return to the 'Author' --On Shakespeare's Cannon2003

    • Author(s)
      Naoki SAKAINO
    • Journal Title

      Bulletin of English Education, Iwate University (in Japanese) No.5

      Pages: 77-88

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 境野 直樹: "再び作者の磁場へ"岩手大学英語教育論集. 5. 27-39 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 境野 直樹: "再び作者の磁場へ-シェイクスピアのキャノンをめぐって-"岩手大学英語教育論集. No.5. 77-88 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] サンドラ・クラーク(境野直樹、訳): "シェイクスピア大事典(項目:21世紀のシェイクスピア)"荒井良雄、大場建治、川崎淳之介 編。日本図書センター. 1037 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 境野 直樹: "ゴルディオスの絆-結婚のディスコースとイギリス・ルネサンス演劇(分担執筆)"楠明子,原英一編,松柏社. 302(163-194) (2002)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2001-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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