Université de Fribourg

"Looking after them, reading in Homer": Thomas Goffe’s Turk Plays in Oxford

Dutton, Elisabeth

In: European Medieval Drama, 2018, vol. 22, p. 171-188

This article discusses two Turk plays of Thomas Goffe that were performed at Christ Church in the first quarter of the seventeenth century, and subsequently printed: the plays present events from late medieval history, but with extensive classical allusion. The article considers the plays’ use of theatrical reference and books as props: these devices may have encouraged a particular...

Université de Fribourg

Elizabeth and Oxford, staging power in the university drama. Dido and Oxford: Stagins Power in the University Drama

Dutton, Elisabeth

In: Théâtralisation des arts et des lettres de la Renaissance anglaise, 2018, p. 195-206

The intended authorial title is 'Elizabeth I, Dido and Oxford: Staging Power in the University Drama', and not the one given by mistake at the time of publication. Recent studies of Elizabethan University drama, particularly those focused upon Elizabeth’s visits to the Universities, have considerably advanced our understanding of why particular plays might have been selected as appropriate...