The seventeenth century readers' marginalia: How they read/used Shakespearean Folios

• Project/Area Number: 15K02359
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Meisei University
• Principal Investigator: SUMIMOTO Noriko 明星大学, 人文学部, 教授 (10247174)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
• Keywords: シェイクスピア / フォリオ / 読者 / 書物 / 書き込み / マテリアル・テクスト研究 / 受容史 / 初期近代 / マージナリア / 本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By examining as many copies of Shakespearean four folios with annotations inscribed by 17th century readers/users as possible, this study has found several characteristics which seem to be there in common among them and constructed a provisional context of the 17th century readership. This provisional context, in turn, has made it available to contextualize the unique example of the reading style the Meisei Copy of the First Folio (MR774) exhibits.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果は学問的には書物史、読書史、とりわけ、初期近代のシェイクスピア受容史にとって、実証的研究としての意義が大きい。書き込みの転写資料の公開が進めば、より貴重な基礎資料を提供することになる。
社会的には、人の営みにおける文学の果たす役割とその持ち得る意味という時代を超えた普遍のテーマを、歴史的にたどることで、「今」を理解することに寄与するという意義が見いだせる。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] CNRS(フランス)
• [Journal Article] 「ケアリ家のファースト・フォリオ」グラスゴー・コピー再び――The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It への書き込みの転写―― (2020)
  • Author(s): 住本 規子
  • Journal Title: 明星国際コミュニケーション研究 Volume: 第12号 Pages: 1-38
  • NAID: 120006817445
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] "A Seventeenth-Century Folio Reader Reading _Hamlet_, 5.1: The Gravediggers' Scene" (2018)
  • Author(s): Sumimoto, Noriko
  • Journal Title: Meisei International Studies Volume: 10 Pages: 1-14
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] グラスゴー・コピーの書き込みの特徴ーー_The Two Gentlemen of Verona_への書き込みの転写とともにーー (2016)
  • Author(s): 住本 規子
  • Journal Title: 明星国際コミュニケーション研究 Volume: 8号 Pages: 1-30
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] “A Seventeenth-Century Folio Reader Reading the Gravediggers’ Scene” (2016)
  • Author(s): Noriko Sumimoto
  • Organizer: 2016 World Shakespeare Congress, Seminar “Hamlet, 5.1: The Gravediggers’ Scene”
  • Place of Presentation: The Wolfston Hall - Shakespeare Centre (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] グラスゴー大学所蔵ファースト・フォリオに見る初期読者の書き込み (2015)
  • Author(s): 住本 規子
  • Organizer: 第54回シェイクスピア学会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道教育大学函館校
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-10
• [Book] 情報爆発-初期近代ヨーロッパの情報管理術 (2018)
  • Author(s): アン・ブレア著、住本規子、廣田敦彦、正岡和恵訳
  • Total Pages: 446
  • Publisher: 中央公論新社
  • ISBN: 9784120051104
• [Funded Workshop] A Celebration of Shakespearean Readership：Exploring and Experiencing the Most Annotated Early First Folio in the World (Meisei University's MR774) (2016)
  • Place of Presentation: 明星大学、東京都日野市