2.11 - Performance in Early Modern Schools with Amanda Eubanks Winkler

History of Education Society UK Podcast

For our next few episodes, we’re going to turn to performance and look at how music, theatre and dance have intersected with education in the past. Our stop will be in early modern England, where Dr Amanda Eubanks Winkler will be our guide to performance in the schoolroom.

Amanda is a historian of English music in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries at Syracuse University. Her research interests include the relationship among musical, spiritual, and bodily disorder; performance and pedagogy; and the intersection of music and politics. Her most recent book, Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools, touches on a number of these topics.

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Sources
Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools by Amanda Eubanks Winkler

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company by Amanda Eubanks Winkler and Richard Schoch

‘Opera at School: Mapping the Cultural Geography of Schoolgirl Performance’ by Amanda Eubanks Winkler, in Operatic Georgraphies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House, edited by Suzanne Aspden