The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University
Author | : Thomas Meacham |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501513125 |
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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.