| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research, dealing with the representations of brothers in British/Irish drama in the long eighteenth century (1688-1837), aimed at clarifying the drastic shift of their dramatic meanings through analyses of individual plays. During this period, the British economy gradually veered from the land-based economy which presupposed primogeniture to the mercantile economic system closely connected with imperialism. Accordingly, while younger brothers in early modern drama, banished from their patrimony, are depicted as a socially liminal existence, later theatrical texts move them to centre stage as merchants and soldiers who would play significant parts in the British Empire.
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