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Wit's Pilgrimage Theatre and the Social Impact of Education in Early Modern England
By Darryll Grantley
Copyright 2000
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: England experienced something of a social revolution in the years from the early 16th century to the Civil War. This work seeks to add a new dimension to the discussion of this phenomena by focusing on the emerging role and function of social behaviour as a means of signalling social identity and rank. Noting the even greater emphasis placed on... Read more
One: Introduction; Two: 'Ornaments to the City': the emergence of national institutions; Three: 'Good behaviour and audacitye': drama, education and the quality of gentility; Four: 'Poesies sacred garlands': education and the playwright; Five: 'A thousand men in judgement sit': education and the audience; Six: ‘Morrals teaching education’: the issue of education in the sixteenth-century interlude; Seven: ‘Philosophers and queint Logicians’: plebeian wits, gentlemen and scholars on the London commercial stage; Eight: Conclusion
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Darryll Grantley
