Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction, and Performance features essays questioning the extent to which education, an activity pursued in the home, classroom, and the church, led to, mirrored, and was perhaps even transformed by moments of instruction on stage. This volume argues that along with the popular press, the early modern stage is also a key pedagogical site and that educationa performed and performativea plays a central role in gender construction. The wealth of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed and manuscript documents devoted to education...