The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University : : The Works of Thomas Chaundler / / Thomas Meacham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Meacham, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Early Drama, Art, and Music
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 200 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: University Drama Before the Tudor Period -- 1. Performative Ideation and the New Wykehamist Ideal -- 2. Devotional Performativity: A Ductus for the Trinity College MS -- 3. Libellus de laudibus duarum civitatum: A Medieval Altercatio -- 4. Exchanging Performative Words: Christmas Kings, Epistolary Performance, and Honest Solace -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Textual and Performative Communities of Oxford, Wells, and Exeter -- Appendix 2. Performance Spaces at Wells Cathedral -- Appendix 3. The Codicological Implications of All Souls College MS 182 -- Appendix 4. Cambridge: Trinity College MS R.14.5 Illustrations -- Appendix 5. Performative Oxford Letters and Related Material -- Bibliography -- Index