Shakespeare and university drama in early modern England /
This book examines how the apparently secluded theatrical culture of the universities became a major source of inspiration for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It offers groundbreaking new readings of plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, illustrating how their depictions of academic c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Note on the Text
- Introduction: Shakespeare and the University
- 1. University Drama in Performance, Manuscript, and Print
- The Inventive Theatricality of Thomas Legge's Richardus Tertius
- Spectacle and Stagecraft in the Plays of William Gager
- Printing Drama at the University Press
- 2. The Insular Academy From Pedantius to Love's Labour's Lost
- Academic Constructions: Forsett's Pedantius
- Other Worlds: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
- A Commitment to Isolation: Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost
- 3. The Scholar's Prejudice in Hamlet
- Misogyny and Antitheatricalism - The Scholar Onstage
- Scholarly Misogyny: Hamlet and Ophelia
- The Players' University Performance
- Elsinore's Monsters
- 4. Disputed Prophecies in Macbeth
- Imperfect Speakers
- Royal Disputations
- Staging Equivocation
- Imperial Ceremony
- 5. Ben Jonson Joins the University
- Aspirations and Rivalries
- Volpone: Jonson's University Play
- Jonson at Oxford
- Conclusion: Shakespeare and the University, Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index