Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England

Kathryn M. Moncrief is Chair and Associate Professor of English at Washington College in Maryland. Kathryn R. McPherson is Professor of English at Utah Valley University.

The essays in this collection question the extent to which education in early modern England, an activity pursued in the home, classroom and the church led to, mirrored and was perhaps transformed by moments of instruction on stage. Contributors examine how educational theories and practices intersect with and construct ideas about gender, class, and national identity and investigate how education was performed and performative, both on stage and off.

Chapter 1 ¿Shall I teach you to know?¿, Kathryn M.Moncrief, Kathryn R.McPherson; Part 1 Humanism and its Discontents; Chapter 2 ¿Now began a new miserie¿, CatherineLoomis; Chapter 3 ¿Euery one teacheth after thyr owne fantasie¿, Jerome deGroot; Chapter 4 ¿Wonderfullye astonied at the stoutenes of her minde¿, DeborahUman; Chapter 5 The Radical Pedagogies of Lady Elizabeth Russell, ChrisLaoutaris; Part 2 Manifestations of Manhood; Chapter 6 ¿Honest payneful pastimes¿, JimCasey; Chapter 7 ¿Lustful Jove and his adulterous child¿, David L.Orvis; Chapter 8 ¿Teach us, sweet madam¿, Kathryn M.Moncrief; Part 3 Decoding Domesticity; Chapter 9 Early Modern Educational Culture, JeanLambert; Chapter 10 Like Mother, Like Daughter? Women Teaching Girls in Early Modern England, UlrikeTancke; Chapter 11 Alma Mater, ElizabethHodgson; Chapter 12 The Absence of Eve in Elizabeth Herbert¿s Catechism, Kathryn R.McPherson; Part 4 Pedagogy Performed; Chapter 13 Modeling Gender Education in The Taming of the Shrew and The Tamer Tamed, AlyssaHerzog; Chapter 14 Instructional Performances, CarolineBicks; Chapter 15 Acting Virtuous, Kent R.Lehnhof;