Overview

This is a truly paradigm-shifting study that reads a key text in Latin Humanist studies as the culmination, rather than an early example, of a tradition in university drama. It persuasively argues against the common assumption that there was no ""drama"" in the medieval universities until the syllabus was influenced by Humanist ideas, and posits a new way of reading the performative dimensions of fourteenth and fifteenth- century university education in, for example, Ciceronian tuition on epistolary delivery. David Bevington calls it ""an impressively learned discussion"" and commends the sophistication of its use of performativity theory.

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"""This is a genuinely and substantially transformative study that significantly fleshes out what can be known, understood and imagined about the subtle textures of cultural life in fifteenth-century England."" (Mishtooni Bose, University of Oxford, in: The Review of English Studies, New Series, 1-3, 2020. doi: 10.1093/res/hgaa067)."

This is a genuinely and substantially transformative study that significantly fleshes out what can be known, understood and imagined about the subtle textures of cultural life in fifteenth-century England. (Mishtooni Bose, University of Oxford, in: The Review of English Studies, New Series, 1-3, 2020. doi: 10.1093/res/hgaa067).

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Thomas Meacham is an Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of Connecticut in the Theatre Studies Program. He explores unconventional medieval performance practices in addition to contemporary examinations of performativity and gender. He received the June Bennett Larsen Fellowship from the theatre department at CUNY and the Schallek Award from the Medieval Academy of America in recognition for his dissertation.

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