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date: 25 February 2021

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John Redford's Wit and Science is a play about education. Redford was a teacher. We cannot prove that he wrote the work for the boys he taught, but who else would he have written it for? It is very obviously intended for skilled musicians. This article discusses why the play of Wit and Science might have turned out the way it did.

Keywords: education, plays, musicians, teacher

Meg Twycross

Meg Twycross is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at Lancaster University. She is Executive Editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre, and has published widely on medieval and early Renaissance theatre and pageantry. In pursuit of performance research, she has directed the productions of many medieval and Tudor plays, including Redford's Wit and Science, in historic buildings resembling the original venues. Her current work using ‘virtual restoration’ techniques on high-resolution digital images of manuscripts is casting new light on the origins of the York Corpus Christi play, and on the composition of the Journal of George Fox the Quaker.

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