Early modern drama at the universities : institutions, intertexts, individuals /
This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama in the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical experiences of students at university in early modern England, following them on the journey from schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. Early Modern Dra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama in the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical experiences of students at university in early modern England, following them on the journey from schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. Early Modern Drama at the Universities is structured to make the subject as accessible as possible, mitigating the difficulties of this sizeable and complex body of evidence. The hundreds of plays we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in classical culture, and the academic establishment's bias against print culture means that most evidence remains in manuscript form. Opening up these plays to a wider readership, this study carves three main roads into the corpus, introducing key institutions, intertexts, and individuals. For the first time we can see the extent to which institutional culture made the drama what it is, pedagogically-inspired, homosocial and self-reflexive. Early Modern Drama at the Universities argues that it was primarily on a college level that students lived, worked and proved themselves to the community, and that if we are to understand university drama as a whole, we must create it from the building blocks of individual college histories. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192857134 9780192857132 |