222 Pages
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Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
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Routledge
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In this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in early modern England. Focusing on plays that were written and performed in academic environments such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, grammar schools, and the Inns of Court, the scholars investigate how those plays strive to give... Read more
Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Walker; Gown before crown: scholarly abjection and academic entertainment under Queen Elizabeth I, Linda Shenk; Christopherson at Cambridge: Greco-Catholic ethics in the Protestant university, Paul D. Streufert; The spectre of the shrew and the lash of the rod: gendering pedagogy in The Disobedient Child, Ursula Potter; The government of performance: Ignoramus and the micropolitics of tutor-student relations, Emily D. Bryan; Theatrical experiment and the production of knowledge in the Gray's Inn Revels, Eric Leonidas; Fantastical distempers: the psychopathology of early modern scholars, Sarah Knight; Cambridge at sea: Byrsa Basilica and the commercialization of Knowledge, Helen Higbee; Drama in the academies of early America, Odai Johnson; Collected Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Jonathan Walker is Assistant Professor of English at Portland State University, USA. Paul D. Streufert is Associate Professor of Literature and Languages at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA
’Early Modern Academic Drama is an admirably coherent anthology, with chapters linked by an important central thesis: while drama is central to humanist educational conventions and aims, such works also probe the gap between ’’practices and ideals’’, exploring the relationship between humanist pedagogy and the civically-minded critical, but loyal, subject that such pedagogy was supposed to develop.’ Renaissance Quarterly 'Early Modern Academic Drama, edited by Jonathan Walker and Paul Streufert, is a vital re-evaluation of the performance cultures of Early Modern educational institutions. ... A major strength of this collection is the connections between individual essays which foreground crucial topics but approach[es] them from diverse perspectives.' Parergon 'The publication of Early Modern Academic Drama is at once overdue and timely... The quality and variety of essays in Jonathan Walker and Paul D. Streufert's collection is commendable, and one leaves the volume energized by the groundbreaking material it contains.' English Studies
