Untutored Lines: The Making of the English Epyllion

William P. Weaver

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May, 2012
Cloth, 272 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4465-0
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, William Weaver reclaims the symbolic significance of rhetoric in the foundational epyllia of Marlowe and Shakespeare and their earliest imitators. Untutored Lines shows that the epyllion was the premier genre through which English poets represented the coming of age of boys in the institutional context of the grammar schools. By attending to the fissures in an educational system that scholars have tended to portray as a monolithic whole, Weaver illuminates in a new way the disciplinary boundaries of grammar and rhetoric, and the conceptual spaces opened up for poetry—and resistance—between them.

Related Subjects

• European and British Literature

Series

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

William Weaver is Assistant Professor of Literature at Baylor University.

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