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Early Modern Drama at the Universities - Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals (Hardcover)
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Early Modern Drama at the Universities - Institutions, Intertexts, Individuals (Hardcover)
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This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the
Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the
theatrical worlds of Englands universities in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens
up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the
reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions,
intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How
to get into university in the first place, or a job afterwards?
Sandis pinpoints the skills that were required for success and the
role of playwriting and performance in the development of those
skills. We follow Oxford and Cambridge students along their
educational journeyfrom schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the
workplace. For the first time, we see the extent to which
institutional culture made the drama what it was:
pedagogically-inspired, homosocial, and self-reflexive. It was
primarily on a college level that students lived, worked, and
proved themselves to the community. Therefore, this study argues,
to understand university drama as a whole we must recreate it from
the building blocks of individual college histories. The hundreds
of plays that we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are
steeped in Classical culture; many are written in Latin.
Manuscript, not print, was the accepted medium for keeping records
of student plays, and these handwritten copies were unique and
personal. It is time to recognize these plays in the context of
early modern English drama, to uncover the culture of drama at the
universities where many leading playwrights of the age were
trained.
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