Dramatizing Penshurst: "Love's Victory" and the Sidneys

戏剧化彭斯赫斯特：《爱的胜利》和西德尼一家

• 批准号: AH/S001808/1
• 负责人: Alison Findlay
• 金额: $ 10.28万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FS001808%2F1
• 关键词: Dramatizing; Penshurst; Love; Victory; Sidneys

'Dramatizing Penshurst' brings to life the remarkable literary history of the Sidney family by staging 'Love's Victory' (1617), by Lady Mary Wroth at her home, Penshurst Place. Wroth was the daughter of Robert Sidney and niece of Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney Herbert, who transformed the literary landscape of the 16th and 17th centuries. Penshurst was a crucible for innovation amidst tradition, an experience which the project recreates for members of the public through rehearsals and performances. It inaugurates Penshurst's strategy for the next 25 years to leverage the house's cultural capital, making sustained use of a historic literary text to deepen visitor engagement with the past. Staging the play 400 years after it was composed disproves Virginia Woolf's view that any sister of Shakespeare could not have written drama. The production, performed by professional actors at Penshurst Place and in the newly-established Marlowe Kit in Canterbury City Centre, will uncover a 'hidden' heritage: the history of Shakespeare's 'sisters' or female contemporary dramatists. The play has almost no recorded stage history. The public will be able to judge its value alongside plays like Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. The rehearsals and performances at Penshurst Place will give people a chance to participate for the first time in a historically-informed piece of household theatre. This theatrical tradition was very different from that of the professional city playhouses like Shakespeare's Globe, from which female performers and writers were excluded. The intimate, medieval venue of the Marlowe Kit will recreate the conditions of a 'private' household performance amidst the commercial bustle of the city. Members of the public of all ages and backgrounds will be invited to contribute actively to the production process by attending free talks, multi-media workshops and open rehearsals leading up to the performances. Those visiting Penshurst and the Marlowe Kit will be able to offer their own perspectives on the script and other Sidney writings by engaging in discussion with the academic leader, the director and the performer-interpreters. The academic leader will talk about the Sidney manuscripts and women's writing from Kent at the Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone. Reading or rehearsing scenes in the rooms and historic gardens at Penshurst will offer actors and members of the public a heightened sensory experience that should prompt reflections about how emotions are generated by places and by the past. Visitors to Penshurst and the Marlowe Kit will be encouraged to respond creatively too, using art, music, creative writing. Through such activities, visitors will become co-producers of the performances of 'Love's Victory' and of Penshurst as a living heritage site. The project contributes to Penshurst's and The Marlowe's long-term goals to build awareness of a shared literary past: deeply rooted in the Kentish landscape but with international scope, whose cultural significance continues to the present. To reach wider publics who are not able to travel to Kent, 'Dramatizing Penshurst' will offer a virtual experience of the co-production process online. A performance of 'Love's Victory' at Penshurst Place will be professionally filmed and made freely available via the project's website. A new on-line exhibition will host edited filmed extracts from the rehearsals, talks, workshops, examples of writing about Penshurst and by the Sidneys and images of the historical sites. People's creative and reflective responses to the live events and Penshurst Place will also feature in the online exhibition. Items will be selected for physical exhibitions at the Marlowe Kit and later at Penshurst Place. The academic advisor will use the archive of materials to offer a Massive Online Open Course to engage a worldwide audience with the writing of Wroth and with Penshurst Place's literary heritage in an accessible way.

“戏剧化彭斯赫斯特”通过玛丽·沃思夫人在她位于彭斯赫斯特广场的家中上演《爱情的胜利》（1617 年），生动地展现了西德尼家族非凡的文学史。沃思是罗伯特·西德尼的女儿，也是菲利普·西德尼爵士和玛丽·西德尼·赫伯特的侄女，她改变了 16 世纪和 17 世纪的文学景观。彭斯赫斯特是传统中创新的熔炉，该项目通过排练和表演为公众重现了这种体验。它开启了彭斯赫斯特未来 25 年的战略，即利用博物馆的文化资本，持续利用历史文学文本来加深游客与过去的接触。 该剧创作 400 年后才上演，反驳了弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫 (Virginia Woolf) 的观点，即莎士比亚的姐妹不可能写出戏剧。该剧由专业演员在彭斯赫斯特广场和坎特伯雷市中心新成立的马洛剧团演出，将揭开一个“隐藏”的遗产：莎士比亚“姐妹”或当代女性剧作家的历史。该剧几乎没有舞台历史记录。公众将能够与莎士比亚的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》等戏剧一起判断其价值。彭斯赫斯特广场 (Penshurst Place) 的排练和表演将使人们有机会第一次参与历史悠久的家庭剧院。这种戏剧传统与莎士比亚环球剧场等专业城市剧场的传统非常不同，女性演员和作家被排除在外。马洛套件 (Marlowe Kit) 温馨的中世纪场地将在城市的商业喧嚣中重现“私人”家庭表演的条件。所有年龄和背景的公众将被邀请参加自由演讲、多媒体研讨会和演出前的公开排练，为制作过程做出积极贡献。那些参观彭斯赫斯特和马洛基特的人将能够通过与学术领袖、导演和表演者兼翻译进行讨论，提出自己对剧本和其他西德尼著作的看法。学术领袖将在梅德斯通的肯特历史和图书馆中心谈论肯特的悉尼手稿和女性写作。在彭斯赫斯特的房间和历史花园中阅读或排练场景将为演员和公众提供增强的感官体验，从而促使人们反思地方和过去如何产生情感。彭斯赫斯特和马洛套件的参观者也将被鼓励利用艺术、音乐和创意写作做出创造性的回应。通过这些活动，游客将成为“爱的胜利”表演和彭斯赫斯特活遗产地的联合制作人。该项目有助于彭斯赫斯特和马洛的长期目标，即建立对共同文学过去的认识：深深植根于肯特郡景观，但具有国际范围，其文化意义一直延续到现在。为了吸引无法前往肯特郡的更广泛公众，“戏剧化彭斯赫斯特”将在线提供联合制作过程的虚拟体验。彭斯赫斯特广场的“爱的胜利”表演将被专业拍摄并通过该项目的网站免费提供。一个新的在线展览将展出经过剪辑的排练、演讲、研讨会的拍摄片段、有关彭斯赫斯特和悉尼夫妇的写作范例以及历史遗迹的图像。人们对现场活动和彭斯赫斯特广场的创造性和反思性反应也将在在线展览中呈现。作品将被选中在马洛套件 (Marlowe Kit) 以及随后在彭斯赫斯特广场 (Penshurst Place) 进行实体展览。学术顾问将利用资料档案提供大规模在线公开课程，以一种易于理解的方式让全世界的观众了解沃斯的写作和彭斯赫斯特广场的文学遗产。

项目成果

"Love's Victory"

《爱的胜利》

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Lady Mary Wroth