Drama and Pedagogy in Medieval and Early Modern England

Elisabeth Dutton, James McBain

• Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9783823379683
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism History & Theory
• Index: Literature

This wide-ranging volume explores relationships between drama and pedagogy in the medieval and early modern periods, with contributions from an international?eld of scholars including a number of leading authorities. Across the medieval and early modern periods, drama is seen to be a way of dissemi-nating theological and philosophical ideas. In medieval England, when literacy was low and the liturgy in Latin, drama translated and transformed spiritual truths, embodying them for a wider audience than could be reached by books alone. In Tudor England, humanist belief in the validity and potential of drama as a pedagogical tool informs the interlude, and examples of dramatized instruction abound on early modern stages. Academic drama is a particularly preg -nant locus for the exploration of drama and peda-gogy: universities and the Inns of Court trained some of the leading playwrights of the early theatre, but also supplied methods and materials that shaped professional playhouse compositions.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• General Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Sarah Brazil: Doctrinal Orthodoxy and the Dramatic in Liturgical and Secular English Drama
• Alexandra F. Johnston: Didacticism in the York Cycle: “In Worde, In Werke”
• Camille Marshall: Doubting the Middleman: Mediated Instruction and Divine Authority in the Towneley Mystery Plays
• Olivia Robinson: Feminizing the Liturgy: The N-Town 'Mary Play' and Fifteenth-Century Convent Drama
• Tamás Karáth: Staging Concerns of Inquisitorial Procedures in 'The N-Town Plays'
• John J. McGavin: Plays on the Move
• Stephanie Allen: 'Ulysses Redux' (1591) and 'Nero' (1601): 'Tragedia Nova'
• Alan H. Nelson: Shakespeare and Southwark
• Robert Stagg: Shakespeare’s Rhythmic Education
• Lynn Enterline: Drama, Pedagogy, and the Female Complaint: Or, What’s Troy Got To Do With It?
• Oliver Morgan: Intervention in 'The Tempest'
• Michelle O’Callaghan: “Jests, stolne from the Temples Revels”: the Inns of Court Revels and Early Modern Drama
• Effie Botonaki: Teaching and Contesting Royal Obedience: The Case of the Stuart Court Masques
• Perry Mills and Alex Mills: In the Company of Edward’s Boys
• Notes on Contributors
• Index of Names