K. Knowles

Shakespeare's Boys

A Cultural History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-43472-5
• 1st ed. 2014
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781349434725
• ISBN-10: 1349434728
• Artikelnr.: 45078082

Autorenporträt

Katie Knowles is a University Teacher in the University of Liverpool's School of English, UK. She specialises in and has published articles on Shakespearean performance histories and representations of childhood in literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Note on Sources Introduction PART I: EARLY MODERN BOYHOODS 1. Noble Imps: Doomed Heirs 2. Separating the Men from the Boys: Roman Plays 3. Pages and Schoolboys: Early Modern Educations PART II: AFTERLIVES 4. Sentiment and Sensation: The Long Eighteenth Century 5. Pathos and Tenderness: The Victorian Era 6. Damage and Delinquency: The Twentieth Century and Beyond