Shakespeare's Boys : a Cultural History /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Knowles, Katie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Series:	Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. Children in literature. Boys in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.

Table of Contents:

Preface Note on Sources Introduction PART I: EARLY MODERN BOYHOODS1. Noble Imps: Doomed Heirs 2. Separating the Men from the Boys: Roman Plays 3. Pages and Schoolboys: Early Modern Educations PART II: AFTERLIVES4. Sentiment and Sensation: The Long Eighteenth Century 5. Pathos and Tenderness: The Victorian Era 6. Damage and Delinquency: The Twentieth Century and Beyond.