Teachers in Early Modern English Drama

Jean Lambert is Fellow, Tutor, and Honorary Archivist at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, UK, with research interests in early modern English literature and its intersection with a range of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century discourse, including politics and pedagogy. Her current research interests include public and popular forms of expression of hostility towards strangers and the foreign in early modern England.

Introduction



1 ‘So many men so many minds’: George Gascoigne’s schoolroom and The Glasse of Government



2 ‘O tempora, O mores’: Philip Sidney’s maying for Elizabeth I: The Lady of May



3 The end of learning in William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost



4 ‘Asse in presenti’: The discipline of grammar: John Marston’s What You Will



5 Playing the pedagogue with Shroud shrews: William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew



6 Prospero’s lessons: Island pedagogies and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest



7 Pedagogical enormities and the fairing of a wasp and a bee in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair