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Explores early modern university plays from Oxford and Cambridge and the extent to which participation in university drama influenced the experiences of early modern students. Studies Latin plays to investigate the links between theatre, ritual, and ceremony to show how theatrical performance could confer status and membership within the academy.
List of contents
- Introduction
- PART I: INSTITUTIONS
- 1: Shared backgrounds and cultural pathways: from school to university
- 2: Young male bodies and a community in costume
- PART II. INTERTEXTS
- 3: Scholar-soldiers take on Roman comedy: Role-playing as the miles glorious
- 4: From bitesize morsels to Thyestean feasts: The competitive world of Senecan revenge tragedy
- PART III. INDIVIDUALS
- 5: Proof is in the performance: Dramatic overtures to patrons and employers
- 6: University drama in print: Curating your image and shaping your story
- Epilogue: A Coming of Age
About the author
Elizabeth Sandis is a theatre historian and Classical scholar at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her articles have been published in high-ranking, peer-reviewed journals including Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Drama, The Seventeenth Century, and Shakespeare Survey. She completed her doctorate at Merton College, Oxford, in 2016 before taking up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. She now works in cancer care for the NHS.
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Explores early modern university plays from Oxford and Cambridge and the extent to which participation in university drama influenced the experiences of early modern students. Studies Latin plays to investigate the links between theatre, ritual, and ceremony to show how theatrical performance could confer status and membership within the academy.
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[A] testament to the rigor and solidity of the author's scholarship. [...] Early Modern Drama at the Universities makes a very valuable contribution to this understudied area of theater studies; it has been extensively and intelligently researched, it is fluently written, and it opens up new perspectives which scholars in the future would do well to explore. [...] Elizabeth Sandis-clearly a scholar of rich promise.
