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Shakespeare's boys : a cultural history

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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JFD 14-2100
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