Bibliographical Studies in the Plays of John Ford

约翰·福特戏剧的文献研究

• 批准号: 01510280
• 负责人: YAMADA Akihiro
• 金额: $ 1.41万
• 依托单位: Meisei University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1989 至 1991
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-01510280/
• 关键词: John Ford; Dramatic text; Textual analysis; Analytical bibliography; Press-variants; PRESS-VARIANTS

The present project has the following three objectives : (1) to record pressvariants in the first quartos of John Ford's seven plays (i. e., The Broken Heart, 1633 ; Perkin Warbeck, 1634 ; The Fancies, Chaste and Noble, 1638 ; The Lady's Trial, 163 9 ; The Lover's Melancholy, 1629 ; Love's Sacrifice, 1633 ; and 'Tis Pitv She's a Whore, 1633) discovered in the course of collation of the extant copies of the quartos ; (2) to describe professional characteristics of their compositors through application of various methods of analytical bibliography to the printed texts ; and (3) to establish Ford's dramatic texts.The project was started in April 1989 with identification of 123 copies of the quartos and was ended in March 1992 with that of 233 copies, which are in the possession of forty-one libraries in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Japan, Holland and Sweden, as recorded in the "CENSUS OF EXTANT COPIES" section of the separate report in book form entitled BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES IN THE PLAYS OF JOHN FORD : A Tentative Record of Press-Variants in the Quarto, pp. 13-15.Conclusions of the first-and the second years of the present project were already reported in the form of an "Abstract" for their respective year. They were the results of more or less faithful achievement of the plans as scheduled : collecting from abroad new primary material mostly in microform and recording every variant discovered in the copies, while carrying out computer-aided textual analyses, though rather imperfect.I would like to emphasize the quality of the collection of the primary research material, which I am sure is of the first rate the world over. I am also certain that the record of press-variants, which is the first objective of the present project, is of the most comprehensive.Further effort, however, ought to be made for the establishment of Ford's dramatic texts on the basis of the analyses of compositorial characteristics discovered in the quartos.

本项目有以下三个目标：（1）记录约翰福特的七个戏剧（即第一个四分之一）的压力变量。例如，《破碎的心》，1633年;《珀金·沃贝克》，1634年;《纯洁与高贵的幻想》，1638年;《女士的审判》，1639年;《情人的忧郁》，1629年;《爱的牺牲》，1633年;《她是个妓女》，1633年）。（2）运用文献分析学的各种方法对印刷文本进行分析，描述其排字人员的职业特征;以及（3）建立福特的戏剧文本。该项目于1989年4月开始，鉴定了123份四开本，并于1992年3月结束，鉴定了233份，这是在英国，美国，日本，荷兰和瑞典的41个图书馆拥有，记录在“现存副本的普查”一节的单独报告，在书的形式，题为《约翰·福特的戏剧中的书目研究：夸托中的印刷变体的初步记录》，页。13-15.本项目第一年和第二年的结论已经以“摘要”的形式报告。这些成果或多或少地忠实地实现了预定的计划：从国外收集新的原始材料，主要是缩微的，并记录在副本中发现的每一个变体，同时进行计算机辅助的文本分析，尽管相当不完善。我想强调原始研究材料的收集质量，我相信这是世界上第一流的。我也确信，本研究的第一个目标-印刷变体的记录是最全面的，但是，在分析四开本中发现的作曲特征的基础上，建立福特的戏剧文本还需要进一步的努力。