"Heigh! Vale Oxonium! Veni Hinksay!" The Scholar and the Rustic in Neo-Latin Pastoral Comedy

Abstract

Discusses Samuel Brooke's Melanthe (1615) and the anonymous play Mercurius Rusticans (c. 1610-18) as examples of "how pastoral 'mirth' was used to position a figure of the scholar, in a way that demonstrates the drama's vested engagement with the political and social dynamics of the early modern universities."