The Converted Robber, or Stonehenge, a Pastoral

Abstract

The Converted Robber, or Stonehenge, a Pastoral is a critical, old spelling, semi-diplomatic edition of an unpublished academic play performed at St. John’s College, Oxford, circa 1635. Starring Stonehenge, shepherds, and a cross-dressed virgin, the play provides a fresh perspective of its cultural and historical moment. The play’s engagement with an archaic literary pastoral, its invocation of courtly masque and spectacle, its gender transformations, its comic rogues, and its iconic English setting reflect on academic drama’s relationship to court entertainment and the professional stage; its geography and setting raises questions about elite versus popular conceptions of the English past; and its multiple conversions trouble any single perspective—whether courtly, gendered, religious, or political. [T.W and N.S]

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