The Dramatic Prologues of Alexander Nowell: Accommodating the Classics at 1540s Westminster
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Abstract
Prefacing Terence's comedies, Nowell produces a learned and charismatic address in the Erasmian mode, drawing together a range of pragmatic and theoretical defences of comedy and a robust notion of fictionality remarkable at this early date.His treatment of Seneca's Hippolytus is quite different: Nowell draws a detailed and unusual parallel between the classical myth and the scriptural story of Genesis that relates him closely to contemporary developments in Reformation neo-classicism in Germany and the Low Countries.These multi-faceted orations paint a complex picture of pedagogy, bureaucratic necessity, and literary thought in the early morning of the English Reformation.1The rough notebook of Alexander Nowell -headmaster of Westminster, Dean of St Paul's, author of the Elizabethan catechism, pioneering Greek instructor, noted angler
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