Research Catalog

Title

Shakespeare's boys : a cultural history / Katie Knowles, University of Liverpool, UK.

Author

Knowles, Katie

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

ix, 257 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History is the first extensive exploration of boyhood in Shakespeare's plays. It examines a range of characters from Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies in their original early modern contexts and surveys their performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day. Focusing on the status of aristocratic boys, the transition from boyhood to manhood and methods of education, it argues that the varied and complex portrayal of boys in Shakespeare reflects the ambiguous and transitional status of boyhood in early modern England, and that the portrayal of these on-stage boys has been a crucial, and sometimes defining, factor in the performance history of Shakespeare's plays. This study embraces this idea of characters in flux, reading Shakespearean boyhood as a continuum in which each historical reincarnation depends upon and reacts against what came before, while influencing what is to come"--

Series Statement

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

Uniform Title

Palgrave Shakespeare studies.

Subject

• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Children in literature
• Boys in literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-243) and index

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFD 14-2100

ISBN

• 9781137005366 (hardback)
• 113700536X (hardback)

LCCN

2013041781

OCLC

861497366

Author

Knowles, Katie, author.

Title

Shakespeare's boys : a cultural history / Katie Knowles, University of Liverpool, UK.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies

Palgrave Shakespeare studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-243) and index

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Research Call Number

JFD 14-2100