Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Timeline -- Cast of Characters -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Time Travel -- 2 Engagement Before Information -- 3 Angels and Eaglets -- 4 Good Behavior and Audacity: The Training Up of Schoolboy Orators -- 5 Context: The Hatch and Brood of Time: A Brief History of the English Reformation -- 6 Erasmus' Egg -- 7 The Delightful Mulcaster -- 8 Per Quam Figuram? -- 9 Erasmus Writes Colloquies -- 10 The Little Eyases: Professional Boy Actors -- 11 The Lego Snap of Learning -- 12 Conclusion
Appendix I: Performing the Colloquies in Latin and in English -- Appendix II: Selection of Educational Drama Resources for Teachers -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century