Wit's Pilgrimage
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780754601678
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Cultural studies; Plays & playwrights: 16th to 18th centuries; Social history; Theatre, drama; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; Literary Criticism; Plays / Drama; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 16th century; 17th century; Early modern and Elizabethan,; Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600; Education; England; English drama; History; History and criticism; Social aspects
Description: "By examining the relationship between education and drama, Grantley contributes important perspectives on the ways in which drama functioned in society. He explores education as a prominent motif in the aristocratically patronized drama of the 16th century; the contribution of the academy to the evolution of public modes of drama; education and the playwrights; education and the audience; and the representations of learning and social behaviour on the public stage." "Throughout, this study explores the increasing social significance of education in 16th- and 17th-century England, and the reflection of that cultural change in the drama of the period."--Jacket.