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Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's 'Politics', and a Previously Unknown Disputation

Blank, Daniel

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This article presents evidence of a previously unknown seventeenth-century disputation at the University of Oxford on the controversial subject of theatrical performance. The evidence appears in the student notebook of Edmund Leigh, who received his BA from Brasenose College in 1604, and who was a protégé of the renowned scholar and theologian John Rainolds. Leigh's notes, which are drawn mainly from Aristotle's Politics and John Case's commentary on that text, provide valuable insight into academic debates over drama. They also suggest that Aristotle, and the Politics in particular, played a larger role in these discussions than scholars have acknowledged.

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Blank, D. (2022). Debating Drama in the Early Modern University: John Case, Aristotle's 'Politics', and a Previously Unknown Disputation. Journal of the History of Ideas, 83(3), 387-406. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0019

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Jul 6, 2022
Publication Date 2022-07
Deposit Date Jul 5, 2022
Publicly Available Date Jul 6, 2023
Journal Journal of the History of Ideas
Print ISSN 0022-5037
Electronic ISSN 1086-3222
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 83
Issue 3
Pages 387-406
DOI https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0019

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