Foreign Entertainers and English Drama in the Age of Charles II

Research Project

Project/Area Number	16H07308
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kanazawa Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	Miyoshi Riki 金沢学院大学, 文学部, 講師 (30780788)
Project Period (FY)	2016-08-26 – 2018-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000) Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	theatre history / Restoration Theatre / 英米文学 / Eighteenth Century Drama / 王政復古期 / １８世紀英文学
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The Restoration period saw an unprecedented influx of foreign talent to the London stage as Charles II personally invited many of them from France and Italy. Yet there have only been a handful of studies on these foreign theatrical entertainers. For this project, I have collected information concerning foreign entertainers who were active on the London stage during the reign of Charles II and analyzed the importance of their contribution to the development of Restoration drama.