Table of Contents:
  • Shakespeare's children
  • Introduction : 'What, are they children?' / Kate Chedgzoy
  • Little princes : Shakespeare's royal children / Catherine Belsey
  • Father-child identification, loss and gender in Shakespeare's plays / Hattie Fletcher and Marianne Novy
  • Character building : Shakespeare's children in context / A.J. Piesse
  • Coriolanus and the little eyases : the boyhood of Shakespeare's hero / Lucy Munro
  • Procreation, child-loss and the gendering of the sonnet / Patricia Phillippy
  • Children's Shakespeares
  • Introduction : reinventing Shakespearean childhoods / Susanne Greenhalgh
  • Play's the thing : agency in children's Shakespeares / Naomi J. Miller
  • Shakespeare in the Victorian children's periodicals / Kathryn Prince
  • Growing up with Shakespeare : the Terry family memoirs / Pascale Aebischer
  • Shakespeare in the company of boys / Kate Chedgzoy
  • Dream children : staging and screening childhood in A midsummer night's dream / Susanne Greenhalgh
  • Shakespeare (')tween media and markets in the 1990s and beyond / Richard Burt
  • Children in Shakespeare's plays : an annotated checklist / Mark Lawhorn
  • Bibliography of Shakespeare and childhood in English / Kate Chedgzoy and Susanne Greenhalgh, with Edel Lamb.