LEADER 04203oam 2200613I 450 001 9910154620603321 005 20230808200605.0 010 $a1-351-94246-8 010 $a1-138-26188-2 010 $a1-315-25724-6 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315257242 035 $a(CKB)3710000000965227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4758413 035 $a(OCoLC)965444258 035 $a(BIP)63376162 035 $a(BIP)14548567 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000965227 100 $a20180706e20162008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aEarly modern academic drama /$fedited by Jonathan Walker and Paul D. Streufert 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (223 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in Performance and Early Modern Drama 300 $aFirst published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 08$a0-7546-6464-3 311 08$a1-351-94247-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Gown before crown : scholarly abjection and academic entertainment under Queen Elizabeth I / Linda Shenk -- 2. Christopherson at Cambridge : Greco-Catholic ethics in the Protestant university / Paul D. Streufert -- 3. The spectre of the shrew and the lash of the rod : gendering pedagogy in The disobedient child / Ursula Potter -- 4. The government of performance : Ignoramus and the micropolitics of tutor-student relations -- 5. Theatrical experiment and the production of knowledge in the Gray's Inn revels / Eric Leonidas -- 6. Fantastical distempers : the psychopathology of early modern scholars / Sarah Knight -- 7. Cambridge at sea : Byrsa Basilica and the commercialization of knowledge / Helen Higbee -- 8. Drama in the academies of early America / Odai Johnson. 330 $aIn this essay collection, the contributors contend that academic drama represents an important, but heretofore understudied, site of cultural production in early modern England. Focusing on plays that were written and performed in academic environments such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, grammar schools, and the Inns of Court, the scholars investigate how those plays strive to give dramatic coherence to issues of religion, politics, gender, pedagogy, education, and economics. Of particular significance are the shifting political and religious contentions that so frequently shaped both the cultural questions addressed by the plays, and the sorts of dramatic stories that were most conducive to the exploration of such questions. The volume argues that the writing and performance of academic drama constitute important moments in the history of education and the theater because, in these plays, narrative is consciously put to work as both a representation of, and an exercise in, knowledge formation. The plays discussed speak to numerous segments of early modern culture, including the relationship between the academy and the state, the tensions between humanism and religious reform, the successes and failures of the humanist program, the social profits and economic liabilities of formal education, and the increasing involvement of universities in the commercial market, among other issues. 410 0$aStudies in performance and early modern drama. 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCollege and school drama, English 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature 606 $aTheater and society$zEngland$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCollege and school drama, English. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature. 615 0$aTheater and society$xHistory. 676 $a822.309 701 $aStreufert$b Paul D$0983038 701 $aWalker$b Jonathan$0830610 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154620603321 996 $aEarly modern academic drama$92243622 997 $aUNINA