DESIDERATA FOR THE STUDY OF NEO-LATIN DRAMA

making better persons became gradually modified by the increasingly confessional cast of education as the Renaissance progressed» This changing didactic function of academic drama plots a significant curve across the Renaissance „ One can observe how the tolerant cosmopolitanChristian ideal erected by the early Christian humanist playwrights gradually narrowed to the late Renaissance ideal whereby the Catholic or Protestant schoolboy was being trained to become an influential citizen of a confessional state«. The adaptation of a rhetoricallyoriented culture to meet the demands of polemics is clearly observed» No less clear is the emergence of a new mirror for princes and the reflections it casts on vernacular drama»