"This low built house will bring us to our ends": Plague quarantine and prophylactic boundaries in early modern drama and culture, 1593-1625.

“这座低矮的房子将带我们走向终点”：早期现代戏剧和文化中的鼠疫检疫和预防边界，1593-1625。

• 批准号: 2239066
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2239066
• 关键词: low; built; house; will; bring

I propose to examine the cultural significance of early modern plague quarantine and plague-time spatial measures through their contemporary dramatic representations. Spatially motivated plague orders, such as flight from infection, confinement, and applied physical and sensory boundaries divided early modern London. The body politic was not only threatened by loss of life from the disease itself, but also faced loss of liberty from its counter measures. As a result, these isolating practices became a flammable subject, one which was articulated in often metatheatrical and site-specific stage narratives. As theatre offers a locus for sharing the human experience, creative interactions with plague-time prevention offer crucial insights into how plague-related spatial orders were understood, assimilated and experienced, and how the threat of disease conditioned public and private domains in early modern London. My aim is to exhibit these dramatic articulations of plague-time space, and their interactions with the material performance space, as alert and critical models of extant prophylactic practice and cultural records of a largely unknown early modern experience.The research skills cultivated during my Masters degree at the Shakespeare Institute, which culminated in a distinction, has prepared me well for further research. My thesis will be a development of the specific research undertaken during the Early Modern Playhouse Culture module that explored the site-specific spatial manifestations of plague within the second Blackfriars playhouse (resulting in a mid-distinction:75). This enquiry was later developed into a paper that I delivered at the British Graduate Shakespeare Conference in 2018: 'The Plague is i' th' house': Plague Quarantine in the Indoor Early Modern Playhouse.'Alongside archival and textual approaches to stagecraft and playhouse culture, the project will also explore the dramaturgy of plague representation practically. This will be based on Shakespeare's Globe's 'Research in Action' workshop format for contemporary and practical exploration of historical staging practices and cultures. This applied research would be the first of its kind within plague studies. As an undergraduate, I received my actors' training at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, exploring a wide repertoire of early modern texts within diverse performance spaces. My expertise and experience in applied, performative Shakespeare studies places me in a unique, interdisciplinary position for undertaking the proposed public engagement and practice-as-research elements of my thesis. This aptitude is reflected in the Shakespeare Institute's decision in selecting me to lead a three-daymasterclass on Shakespeare's text for French undergraduates last Spring.

我建议通过它们的当代戏剧表现来检验早期现代鼠疫检疫和瘟疫时间空间措施的文化意义。空间驱动的瘟疫秩序，如躲避感染，禁闭，以及物理和感官的界限划分了早期现代伦敦。国家不仅受到疾病本身造成的生命损失的威胁，而且还面临着因其应对措施而丧失自由的威胁。因此，这些孤立的做法成为一个易燃的主题，经常在元戏剧和特定场地的舞台叙事中表达出来。剧院提供了一个分享人类经验的场所，与瘟疫预防的创造性互动提供了重要的见解，让我们了解与瘟疫相关的空间秩序是如何被理解、吸收和体验的，以及疾病的威胁是如何影响现代早期伦敦公共和私人领域的。我的目的是展示这些瘟疫时间空间的戏剧性表达，以及它们与物质表演空间的相互作用，作为现存预防实践的警觉和批判模型，以及一种很大程度上未知的早期现代经验的文化记录。我在莎士比亚学院攻读硕士学位期间培养的研究技能最终使我获得了一项殊荣，这为我进一步的研究做好了准备。我的论文将是在早期现代剧场文化模块中进行的具体研究的发展，该模块探索了第二个黑衣修士剧场中瘟疫的特定场地空间表现（结果是中等区分：75）。这一调查后来发展成一篇论文，我在2018年的英国研究生莎士比亚会议上发表了这篇论文：《瘟疫在房子里：早期现代室内剧院的瘟疫隔离》。“除了舞台艺术和剧场文化的档案和文本方法外，该项目还将探索鼠疫表现的戏剧。”这将以莎士比亚环球剧院的“行动研究”工作坊形式为基础，对历史舞台实践和文化进行当代和实际的探索。这一应用研究将是鼠疫研究领域的首例。作为一名大学生，我在著名的布里斯托尔老维克剧院学校接受了演员培训，在不同的表演空间里探索了广泛的早期现代文本。我在应用，表演莎士比亚研究方面的专业知识和经验使我处于一个独特的，跨学科的位置，可以承担我论文中提出的公众参与和实践研究元素。去年春天，莎士比亚学院决定选择我为法国本科生讲授为期三天的莎士比亚文本大师班，这也反映了我的这种天赋。