Pedagogy and Parenting in English Drama, 1560-1610: Flogging Schoolmasters and Cockering Mothers

摘要: In this thesis I examine the representation of parents and schoolmasters conflicts between them in vernacular drama Reformation England. This was a period growth public schooling time when numerous treatises on education childrearing were circulation Prevailing pedagogical theory privileged schoolmaster’s authority over that parents, set paternal mother. It sought to limit maternal power domestic sphere infant years, yet examined here suggests mothers, not fathers, usually parent control their children’s education. The inherent these oppositions are played out dealing with childrearing; each works participates contributes debate school parenting practices early modern conducts close textual contextual analysis parent-school relations seven English plays. A variety dramatic genres is represented: (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Patient Grissill, Winter’s Tale), (Nice Wanton, July Julian, Disobedient Child), private royal entertainment (The Lady May). plays explicated terms Tudor culture negotiation mothers schoolmasters. draws extensively sixteenth-century dialogues vulgaria treatises, which available England, particular writings Erasmus, Vives, Ascham, Mulcaster, Elyot, Brinsley Becon. School records provide information conditions curricula, duties qualities role schools civic performances. addresses issues gender, childrearing, parental second half sixteenth seventeenth centuries.