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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.
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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Trojan Women (Paperback)
Euripides; Edited by Paul D. Streufert; Paul D. Streufert
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R569
Discovery Miles 5 690
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Trojan Women tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War,
the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek
army. Through the tragedy's central character, the matriarch
Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides' commitment
to speaking on behalf of the less powerful and offers a scathing
critique of Athenian behavior as the city fought its own disastrous
war with its southern neighbor, Sparta. Trojan Women features
well-known characters from Greek mythology, including the
prophetess Cassandra, the gods Athena and Poseidon, and most
notably, the infamous Helen, the cause of the war, who must defend
herself to the husband she abandoned. This new translation features
a text committed to accuracy and clarity, one developed in
collaboration with actors for clear reading and performance.
Appendices provide other important literary treatment of the women
in the play, from Homer to Shakespeare.
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