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Early Modern Academic Drama (Paperback)
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Early Modern Academic Drama (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
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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
dramatic coherence to issues of religion, politics, gender,
pedagogy, education, and economics. Of particular significance are
the shifting political and religious contentions that so frequently
shaped both the cultural questions addressed by the plays, and the
sorts of dramatic stories that were most conducive to the
exploration of such questions. The volume argues that the writing
and performance of academic drama constitute important moments in
the history of education and the theater because, in these plays,
narrative is consciously put to work as both a representation of,
and an exercise in, knowledge formation. The plays discussed speak
to numerous segments of early modern culture, including the
relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions
between humanism and religious reform, the successes and failures
of the humanist program, the social profits and economic
liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of
universities in the commercial market, among other issues.
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