Civic London 1559-1642

伦敦在伊丽莎白和斯图尔特时代的戏剧性记录--威廉·莎士比亚、本·琼森、克里斯托弗·马洛、托马斯·米德尔顿、约翰·韦伯斯特、托马斯·德克尔等人的时代--具有无与伦比的重要性，但到目前为止，学术界大多忽视了这一点。在很长一段时间里，伦敦金融城被斥为沉闷的反戏剧清教徒的领地，在那里，看戏即使没有明确禁止，也是不受欢迎的，但实际上，伦敦金融城是戏剧活动的温床，在其范围内幸存下来的众多表演记录是一种未开发的资源。从16世纪中叶到17世纪中叶，伦敦金融城内的戏剧活动与著名的郊区剧院(如剧院、环球剧院和玫瑰剧院)同时举行。事实上，在许多情况下，同样的编剧和表演者--包括剧作家本·琼森、托马斯·米德尔顿、托马斯·德克、约翰·韦伯斯特、托马斯·海伍德和安东尼·芒迪，以及《国王的男人》的理查德·伯贝奇和《海军上将的男人》的爱德华·阿莱恩等知名演员--都被这两个领域聘用，这一事实值得更好地了解。《伦敦市政1559-1642》将首次全面展现伦敦被忽视的客栈的表演场面，比如路德盖特的Bel Savage和毕肖普斯盖特的公牛，例如，马洛的一些戏剧，甚至可能是莎士比亚的一些戏剧，都可能在那里上演。它将调查在伦敦制服公司大厅和学校(如托马斯·基德和埃德蒙·斯宾塞等人参加的商人泰勒学校)的表演，以及探索泰晤士河和城市街道上的壮观和戏剧。因此，《伦敦市政1558-1642》将是第一个揭示文艺复兴时期伦敦表演文化的深度和丰富性的项目，使学者和非专业研究人员能够了解英格兰首都在英国戏剧鼎盛时期充满活力的戏剧传统。该项目的研究成果将托管在一个可搜索的、免费使用的出版前网站上，并附有用户指南和搜索辅助工具。因此，地方、国家和国际受众以及非专家和学者都可以访问这项研究。非专业观众最初可能会因为他们对当时最著名的戏剧家的了解而觉得这个项目研究很有趣，但通过《伦敦市政1559-1642》，他们会了解到文艺复兴时期的戏剧不仅仅是莎士比亚的作品。该项目将突出其他作家和表演者对这一时期戏剧的重要贡献，其中一些人可能不太熟悉，但在这一背景下，他们实际上更重要。该项目自始至终都有公众参与。伦敦的文化历史具有长期的吸引力，特别是因为研究捕捉到的一些表演形式--例如每年仍吸引大量观众的市长公演--一直延续到今天，因此直接反映了许多人的生活经历。该项目的公众参与工作的一部分是开发一款移动应用程序，提供虚拟徒步旅行，使人们能够对研究探索的表演场地进行地图绘制和定位，从而进一步提高其可达性。该项目团队还计划在伦敦的无障碍场地举办一个免费的公共展览和学习日，以及一场公开讲座。此外，本研究无疑将对中学、大学和高等教育层面的教与学产生实质性的影响。莎士比亚、马洛、琼森和他们同时代的戏剧是GCSE、A级和大学英语课程的核心，能够自由地利用项目网站上的项目成果将使教师和学生都能够改变他们对这一关键时期戏剧的理解。

London's dramatic records from the Elizabethan and Stuart periods - the age of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Thomas Dekker, and others - are of unparalleled importance, but have been mostly overlooked by scholarship until now. For too long dismissed as the domain of dour anti-theatrical puritans, a place where playgoing was frowned upon if not explicitly prohibited, the City of London was in fact a hotbed of dramatic activity, and the numerous records that survive of performance within its boundaries are an untapped resource. From the mid sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries, theatrical activity was taking place within the City of London at the same time as in the famous suburban playhouses such as the Theatre, the Globe, and the Rose. Indeed, on many occasions the very same writers and performers - including dramatists Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Thomas Heywood, and Anthony Munday, as well as high-profile actors like Richard Burbage of the King's Men and Edward Alleyn of the Admiral's Men - were being employed in both domains, a fact which deserves to be better known. 'Civic London 1559-1642' will produce for the first time a full picture of performances at the overlooked City inns such as the Bel Savage on Ludgate and the Bull on Bishopsgate, where, for example, some of Marlowe's plays, and possibly even some by Shakespeare, were likely staged. It will investigate performances in the City's livery company halls and in its schools (such as the Merchant Taylors' School, attended by Thomas Kyd and Edmund Spencer, amongst others), as well as exploring pageantry and drama on the river Thames and on the City streets. 'Civic London 1558-1642' will therefore be the first project to reveal the depth and richness of the City's performance culture in the Renaissance, enabling academics as well as lay researchers to understand the vibrant theatrical traditions of England's capital city in the hey-day of English drama. The project's research findings will be hosted on a searchable, free-to-use pre-publication website, accompanied by user guides and search aids. The research will thus be accessible by local, national, and international audiences and by non-specialists as well as academics. Non-specialist audiences may initially find the project research interesting based on their knowledge of the most famous dramatist of the day, but through 'Civic London 1559-1642' they will learn that there was a great deal more to Renaissance theatre than simply Shakespeare. The project will foreground the important contributions to the drama of this period made by other writers and performers, some of whom will be less familiar but who in this context were actually rather more important. The project has public engagement built in throughout. The cultural history of London is of perennial appeal, especially since some of the forms of performance captured by the research - such as the Lord Mayor's Show, which still draws large crowds annually - continue to this day, and thus speak directly to the lived experience of many people. Part of the project's public engagement work is to develop a mobile app to provide virtual walking tours to enable people to map and locate the performance venues explored by the research, thus enhancing its accessibility still further. The project team also plan a free public exhibition and study day, and a public lecture, at accessible venues in London. In addition, the research will undoubtedly have a substantial impact on teaching and learning at school, college and HE level. Drama from the time of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, and their contemporaries is central to GCSE, A Level and university English curricula, and being able to draw freely on the project outputs from the project's website will enable teachers and students alike to transform their understanding of the theatre of this crucial period.