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oapen-20.500.12657-238202024-03-22T19:23:08Z The Christmas drama of the household of St John’s College, Oxford Dutton, Elisabeth St John’s College, Oxford The Christmas Prince Narcissus Grobiana’s Nuptials Academic drama thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500 This chapter considers early modern academic drama performed at St John’s College, Oxford. Dutton begins by describing the college household materials on which such performances drew, adopting a productively broad definition of this category that includes the people working, studying, and teaching at St John’s, as well as their immediate neighbours in town; the college’s domestic furnishings, such as tables, paintings, and candles; the matter covered there in lectures; and the university’s own medieval foundations. Working first from a text now known as The Christmas Prince, a richly informative but often overlooked account of the 1607–1608 Christmas festivities at St John’s, Dutton describes the financing of the St John’s plays as well as the practicalities associated with their staging and rehearsal and with the sourcing of actors. In the productions performed as part of the Christmas Prince celebrations as well as in the earlier and later examples of St John’s college drama that Dutton examines, the college play emerges as a means of reaffirming and celebrating the local, collegiate culture as well as constituting an interface with the outside world across which people and ideas might move both into and out of the college household. 2019-11-13 23:55 2020-01-23 12:18:26 2020-04-01T09:29:55Z 2020-04-01T09:29:55Z 2019 book 1006317 OCN: 1135845200 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23820 eng application/pdf n/a 9781526144225.pdf https://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144218/ Manchester University Press 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b70636da-dc2d-4755-a37e-360db651c0bf Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Manchester Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - OAPEN-CH open access
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This chapter considers early modern academic drama performed at St John’s College, Oxford. Dutton begins by describing the college household materials on which such performances drew, adopting a productively broad definition of this category that includes the people working, studying, and teaching at St John’s, as well as their immediate neighbours in town; the college’s domestic furnishings, such as tables, paintings, and candles; the matter covered there in lectures; and the university’s own medieval foundations. Working first from a text now known as The Christmas Prince, a richly informative but often overlooked account of the 1607–1608 Christmas festivities at St John’s, Dutton describes the financing of the St John’s plays as well as the practicalities associated with their staging and rehearsal and with the sourcing of actors. In the productions performed as part of the Christmas Prince celebrations as well as in the earlier and later examples of St John’s college drama that Dutton examines, the college play emerges as a means of reaffirming and celebrating the local, collegiate culture as well as constituting an interface with the outside world across which people and ideas might move both into and out of the college household.
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