Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Preiss, Richard; Williams, Deanne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in two key early modern institutions, the school and the stage, and shows, in turn, how these institutions shaped our understanding of childhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781107476059
• ISBN-10: 1107476054
• Artikelnr.: 63565305

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Shakespearean Childhoods: 1. Hamlet's boyhood Seth Lerer; 2. The
traffic in children: shipwrecked Shakespeare, precarious Pericles Joseph
Campana; 3. Incapable and shallow innocents: mourning Shakespeare's
children in Richard III and The Winter's Tale Charlotte Scott; Part II.
Beyond the Boy Actor: 4. Speaking like a child: staging children's speech
in early modern drama Lucy Munro; 5. Shakespeare versus Blackfriars:
satiric comedy, domestic tragedy, and the boy actor in Othello Bart Van Es;
6. Cupid's metamorphosis: John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis and the return
of the children's playing companies Bastian Kuhl; Part III. Girls and Boys:
7. The further adventures of Ganymede Stephen Orgel; 8. Chastity, speech,
and the girl masquer Deanne Williams; 9. Milton and female perspiration
Douglas Trevor; Part IV. Afterlives: 10. 'Too green/yet for lust, but not
for love': Andrew Marvell and the invention of children's literature Blaine
Greteman; 11. All Macbeth's sons James J. Marino; 12. Modern
retrospectives: childhood and education in Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean
plays Elizabeth Pentland.