The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters : gender transgression, adolescence /
The first full-length study of how the concept of the ""girl"" was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, chall...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The first full-length study of how the concept of the ""girl"" was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the ""girl"" played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult ""roaring girls"" in ci. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748655915 0748655913 |