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This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century.
List of contents
TimelineCast of CharactersAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Time Travel: Setting the scene
Chapter 2. Engagement before Information: Instruction in both colloquial and rhetorical language in Elizabethan schools
Chapter 3. Angels and Eaglets: Schoolboy actors set the scene
Chapter 4. Good Behavior and Audacity: The training up of Elizabethan schoolboys
Chapter 5. The Lego Snap of Learning: Research in arts education and neuroscience
Chapter 6. Context: The Hatch and Brood of Time: A brief history of the English Reformation
Chapter 7. Erasmus' Egg: His life and his works in support of performing arts in education
Chapter 8. The Delightful Mulcaster: Playmaking schoolmasters in Tudor England
Chapter 9. Per Quam Figuram? Rhetoric in Shakespeare's classroom
Chapter 10. Erasmus Writes Colloquies: Classroom training in Latin conversation
Chapter 11. The Little Eyases: Professional boy actors in the 16th century
Chapter 12. Conclusion
BibliographyAppendix I: Performing the Colloquies
Examples of Erasmus' Colloquies in Latin and English
- Proci and puellae (Courtship)
- Naufragium (The Shipwreck)
- Uxor (Marriage)
- Abattis et eruditae (The Abbot and the Learned Woman)
- Herilia (A Master's Commands)
Appendix II: Selection of Educational Drama Resources for Teachers
Index
About the author
Robin Lithgow was the first ever Theatre Adviser, and later the Director, of the Los Angeles Unified School District's Arts Education Branch. In that role she and her colleagues were the architects of the Elementary Arts Program, serving every one of over 550 elementary schools, with itinerant teachers in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts.
She is the daughter of Arthur Lithgow, perhaps the only person ever to have produced every play in Shakespeare's canon. She is the sister of the theatre and film actor, John Lithgow, who has kindly illustrated this book.
Summary
This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century.
