Staging John Redford's Wit and Science in 2019

• Autores: Elisabeth Dutton, Perry Mills
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 41, 2020, págs. 191-208
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Play of Wit and Science was written c.1540 by John Redford, choirmaster of St Paul’s. It participates in the genre of educational drama which emerged in the late Middle Ages in Northern European schools; works of classical drama were adapted for the tastes and talents of schoolboys, and Redford’s play shares with other school plays ‘an interest in learning and entertainment’. That it does not tell a classical story, and is in English rather than Latin, may be because it was performed by the Children of Paul’s, choristers, not by the boys of Dean Colet’s St Paul’s Grammar School