Early Modern Academic Drama

The contributors contend that academic drama represents an important site of cultural production in early modern England. Focusing on plays that were written and performed in academic environments, the scholars investigate how those plays strive toMoreThe contributors contend that academic drama represents an important site of cultural production in early modern England. Focusing on plays that were written and performed in academic environments, the scholars investigate how those plays strive to give dramatic coherence to issues of religion, politics, gender, pedagogy, education and economics.