The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler

The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler
ISBN-10
1501513125
ISBN-13
9781501513121
Category
History
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2020-01-20
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Author
Thomas Meacham

Description

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.

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