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.
This study asks us what lessons we can learn today from Shakespeare’s Latin grammar school. What were the cognitive benefits of an education so deeply rooted in what Demosthenes and Quintilian called "actio"―acting? Because of the vast difference between educational practice then and now, we have not often followed one essential thread: the focus on performance. This study examines the connections relevant to the education offered in schools today.
This book will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and administrators in performing arts and education.
Author(s): Robin Lithgow
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 253
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Timeline
Cast of Characters
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Time Travel
2 Engagement Before Information
3 Angels and Eaglets
4 Good Behavior and Audacity: The Training Up of Schoolboy Orators
5 Context: The Hatch and Brood of Time: A Brief History of the English Reformation
6 Erasmus’ Egg
7 The Delightful Mulcaster
8 Per Quam Figuram?
9 Erasmus Writes Colloquies
10 The Little Eyases: Professional Boy Actors
11 The Lego Snap of Learning
12 Conclusion
Appendix I: Performing the Colloquies in Latin and in English
Appendix II: Selection of Educational Drama Resources for Teachers
Bibliography
Index
