> The trilogy raises an Elizabethan question: After college – what comes next? …universities were producing more scholars than there were opportunities for them. …Their great education tended to discourage them from taking up the humble trades of their fathers. The Parnassus plays may not provide a solution, but they at least illustrated the fears of such ambitious young scholastic dreamers.
So — elite overproduction is not a new problem, you say?
> The trilogy raises an Elizabethan question: After college – what comes next? …universities were producing more scholars than there were opportunities for them. …Their great education tended to discourage them from taking up the humble trades of their fathers. The Parnassus plays may not provide a solution, but they at least illustrated the fears of such ambitious young scholastic dreamers.
So — elite overproduction is not a new problem, you say?
Nor the elite's solution: ideological wrapping over intra-elite reputational warfare -- cf., twitter.