| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1985: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
(1) Oshio has, for some years, investigated cultural aspects of Renaissance England, mainly the relationship between the "broadside ballads" and the ballad singers who appear in Shakespeare's plays. The focus of the present project has been shifted on to his tragedies, and consequently how "traditional ballads" rather than "broadsides" were put into use in King Lear is discussed in the article mentioned below.
(2) Oshio attended the Third World Shakespeare Congress held in West Berlin in April, 1986, as one of the speakers in the seminar "Images of King Lear". In an article presented beforehand "Ran( ), a Japanese King Lear", Oshio tried to bring to light the Oriental handling of Shakespeare's King Lear by Akira Kurosawa and compared it with that of Kozintsev and Peter Brook.
(3) One more article by Oshio, "The Phoenix and the Turtle; Shakespeare's Abstract Poem?" has recently published (attached here) as the result of the last year's study for the project. The musicality,musical structure as well as ritual and neoplatonic meaning of the work is discussed here. John Jubert's musical piece (composed in 1984) is also introduced.
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