Academic drama
A dramatic institution of the late 15th and early 16th c. in
England, in which plays written by schoolmasters or other scholars were
performed by students at schools, universities or Inns of Court. Translations
of Roman playwrights such as Terence and Plautus were popular and,
along with original dramatic compositions in Latin, were performed as part
of the curriculum. Following a pedagogical ideal influenced by European
humanism, imitations of these classical models also appeared in English
from the mid 16th c., with the comedy Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) by the
Westminster schoolmaster Nicholas Udall surviving as an early example.
Relatively neglected in comparison to the public theatres of the age, academic
drama also constituted an important link between crown and academe, with
Elizabeth both receiving plays at court and commissioning their performance
as royal entertainment during state visits to the universities. See also school
drama.
A dramatic institution of the late 15th and early 16th c. in
England, in which plays written by schoolmasters or other scholars were
performed by students at schools, universities or Inns of Court. Translations
of Roman playwrights such as Terence and Plautus were popular and,
along with original dramatic compositions in Latin, were performed as part
of the curriculum. Following a pedagogical ideal influenced by European
humanism, imitations of these classical models also appeared in English
from the mid 16th c., with the comedy Ralph Roister Doister (c. 1552) by the
Westminster schoolmaster Nicholas Udall surviving as an early example.
Relatively neglected in comparison to the public theatres of the age, academic
drama also constituted an important link between crown and academe, with
Elizabeth both receiving plays at court and commissioning their performance
as royal entertainment during state visits to the universities. See also school
drama.
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