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

我建议通过它们的当代戏剧性表现来考察早期现代鼠疫检疫和牺牲时间空间措施的文化意义。现代早期的伦敦是由空间驱动的瘟疫秩序划分的，比如逃避感染、禁闭，以及物理和感官上的界限。国家不仅受到疾病本身造成的生命损失的威胁，而且还面临着其应对措施造成的自由损失。因此，这些孤立的做法成为一个易燃的主题，一个是阐明往往元戏剧和特定地点的舞台叙事。由于戏剧提供了一个分享人类经验的场所，与死亡时间预防的创造性互动提供了至关重要的见解，以了解与死亡相关的空间秩序是如何被理解，同化和体验的，以及疾病的威胁如何制约现代早期伦敦的公共和私人领域。我的目标是展示这些戏剧性的表达时间空间，以及它们与物质表演空间的相互作用，作为现存的预防性实践的警觉和批判性模型，以及一个基本上不为人知的早期现代经验的文化记录。我在莎士比亚研究所攻读硕士学位期间培养的研究技能，最终以优异成绩告终，为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，该模块探讨了第二个Blackfriars剧场内瘟疫的特定地点的空间表现（导致中间区别：75）。这一调查后来发展成为我在2018年英国研究生莎士比亚会议上发表的一篇论文：“瘟疫是我的房子：室内早期现代剧场的瘟疫检疫。除了对舞台艺术和剧场文化的档案和文本方法外，该项目还将探索瘟疫表现的戏剧性。这将是基于莎士比亚的地球仪的“行动研究”研讨会的形式，为当代和实际探索的历史分期的做法和文化。这项应用研究将是鼠疫研究中的第一项此类研究。作为一名本科生，我在著名的布里斯托老维克戏剧学院接受了演员培训，在不同的表演空间中探索了早期现代文本的广泛剧目。我在应用，表演莎士比亚研究的专业知识和经验，使我在一个独特的，跨学科的位置进行拟议的公众参与和实践作为我的论文的研究元素。莎士比亚学院去年春天决定让我为法国本科生主持一个为期三天的莎士比亚文本大师班，这反映了我的才能。

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.