Resumen de George Gascoigne at Oxford
George Gascoigne’s Supposes, translated from Ariosto’s erudite comedy, is unique as a contemporaneous vernacular play performed at two different early modern academic environments: it was staged at both the Inns of Court (Gray’s Inn, 1566) and at Oxford University (Trinity College, 1582). In considering why the play might have appealed to Trinity, I demonstrate how it relies upon a recognition of a saturation of allusions to classical comedy, with which an early modern audience at Oxford would have been familiar. I conclude with the irony that the original audience might not have been so well equipped.
