Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction1 ‘So many men so many minds’: George Gascoigne’s schoolroom and The Glasse of Government2 ‘O tempora, O mores’: Philip Sidney’s maying for Elizabeth I: The Lady of May3 The end of learning in William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost4 ‘Asse in presenti’: The discipline of grammar: John Marston’s What You Will5 Playing the pedagogue with Shroud shrews: William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew6 Prospero’s lessons: Island pedagogies and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest7 Pedagogical enormities and the fairing of a wasp and a bee in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair

"Starting from the early modern presumption of the incorporation of role with authority, Jean Lambert explores male teachers as representing and engaging with types of authority in English plays and dramatic entertainments by Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth century. This book examines these theatricalized portraits in terms of how they inflect aspects of humanist educational culture and analyses those ideas and practices of humanist pedagogy that carry implications for the traditional foundations of authority. Teachers in Early Modern English Drama is a fascinating study through two centuries of teaching Shakespeare and his contemporaries and will be a valuable resource for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama, writing and culture"--