Staging the Henrician Court

汉普顿宫殿的大会堂是亨利八世建造的唯一的大厅。它也是英国现存的唯一一座文艺复兴时期的建筑，有明确的证据表明它在大约1525-1658年期间被用于表演。尤其值得一提的是，今天汉普顿宫廷的大厅与威廉·莎士比亚在詹姆斯一世和六世面前上演他的《仲夏夜之梦》时的空间基本相同。上演亨利西斯宫廷是对约翰·海伍德的戏剧《威瑟的戏剧》进行的跨学科研究项目。它将基于历史研究和文本分析，并将利用汉普顿法院大会堂的戏剧表演和研讨会来研究亨利西亚法院。在《新环球报》进行了一些非常有用的研究，其基础是再现莎士比亚戏剧的真实表演，但亨利西亚宫廷的独特之处在于，汉普顿宫廷的大会堂与16世纪和17世纪的大体相同。这意味着，在大会堂工作时，不可避免地围绕着在重建的表演空间(如新环球剧院)进行的研究的那种尾声和警告将不那么紧迫。举办亨利西亚宫廷是该项目的第二阶段。第一阶段由澳大利亚人权委员会资助，于2007年5月完成，在大会堂举办了一次讲习班，以确定在大会堂成功制作一部以研究为主导的完整的恩里克宫廷戏剧之前需要解决的问题。这一初步项目的结果及其成功构成了目前赠款申请的基础。亨利西亚宫廷的上演将使用那个时代的主要剧作家之一约翰·海伍德的戏剧《风雨》，通过表演来研究亨利八世宫廷中法庭空间的管理方式。在这部剧中，代表亨利八世的木星神决定来到地球，解决人类关于哪种天气是最好的持续不断的争论。然而，他发现，没有人能同意这一点。磨坊工人想要下雨，洗衣工妇女想要阳光和风，小男孩想要下雪。最后，木星决定让事情保持原样。该剧寓言了亨利在1533年面临的宗教选择，并巧妙地辩称，国王应该遵循的最佳政策是什么都不做，同时试图平息现有的争端。2009年将是亨利八世1509年继承王位的周年纪念日。亨利西亚宫廷的举办得到了管理汉普顿宫廷的慈善机构历史皇家宫殿的全力支持，并将成为2009年计划举行的纪念亨利继承的活动的重要组成部分。

The Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace is the only great hall built by Henry VIII. It is also the only existing Renaissance building in England for which there is unambiguous evidence of its being used for performances throughout the period c.1525 - 1658. In particular, the Great Hall at Hampton Court is largely the same space today as it was when William Shakespeare staged his A Midsummer Night's Dream before James I and VI. Staging the Henrician Court is an interdisciplinary research project into John Heywood's drama, the Play of the Wether. It will be based on historical research and textual analysis and will use dramatic performances and workshops in the Great Hall at Hampton Court to research the Henrician court. There has been some very useful research conducted at the New Globe based upon the recreation of authentic performances of Shakespeare's plays but what makes Staging the Henrician Court unique is that the Great Hall at Hampton Court is largely the same as it was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This means that the kind of codas and caveats that inevitably surround research conducted in reconstructed performance spaces like the New Globe will be less pressing when working in the Great Hall. Staging the Henrician Court is the second stage of the project. The first stage, which was funded by the AHRC and was completed in the May 2007, staged a workshop in the Great Hall in order to define the kind of problems that need to be solved before a full research-led production of a Henrician court drama could be successfully produced in the Hall. The results of this initial project, and its sucess, forms the foundation of the current grant application. Staging the Henrician Court will use The Play of the Wether, by John Heywood, one of the leading playwrights of the period, in order to research, through performance, the way court space was managed at Henry VIII's court. In this play the God Jupiter, representing Henry VIII, decides to come to earth and resolve the constant debates that humans have over which is the best kind of weather. He finds, however, that no-one can agree. Millers want rain while washer women want sun and wind and little boys desire snow. In the end Jupiter decides to leave things as they are. The play is an allegory of the religious choices facing Henry in 1533 and subtly argues that the best policy for the king to follow is to do nothing, while trying to pacify existing disputes. 2009 will be the anniversary of Henry VIII's succession in 1509. Staging the Henrician Court is fully supported by Historic Royal Palaces, the charity that manages Hampton Court, and will form an important part of the events planned for 2009 to mark Henry's succession.