Meacham The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University

The Works of Thomas Chaundler
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5015-1312-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Early Drama, Art, and Music

This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no 'drama' in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth-century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it 'an impressively learned discussion' and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.

Thomas John Meacham, Lake Superior State University, USA.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meacham, Thomas