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Title Childhood, education and the stage in early modern England / edited by Richard Preiss, University of Utah ; Deanne Williams, York University
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: â#x80;#x9C;Look onâ#x80;#x99;t againâ#x80;#x9D; -- I Shakespearean Childhoods -- Chapter 1 Hamletâ#x80;#x99;s Boyhood -- Chapter 2 The Traffic in Children: Shipwrecked Shakespeare, Precarious Pericles -- Chapter 3 Incapable and Shallow Innocents: Mourning Shakespeareâ#x80;#x99;s Children in Richard III and The Winterâ#x80;#x99;s Tale -- II Beyond the Boy Actor -- Chapter 4 Speaking Like a Child: Staging Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Speech in Early Modern Drama
Chapter 5 Shakespeare versus Blackfriars: Satiric Comedy, Domestic Tragedy, and the Boy Actor in OthelloChapter 6 The Metamorphoses of Cupid: John Lylyâ#x80;#x99;s Loveâ#x80;#x99;s Metamorphosis and the Return of the Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Playing Companies -- III Girls and Boys -- Chapter 7 The Further Adventures of Ganymede -- Chapter 8 Chastity, Speech, and the Girl Masquer -- Chapter 9 Milton and Female Perspiration -- IV Afterlives -- Chapter 10 â#x80;#x9C;Too green / Yet for Lust, but not for Loveâ#x80;#x9D;: Andrew Marvell and the Invention of Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Literature -- Chapter 11 All Macbethâ#x80;#x99;s Sons
""Chapter 12 Modern Retrospectives: Childhood and Education in Tom Stoppardâ#x80;#x99;s Shakespearean Plays""""Bibliography""
Summary This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-284) and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Children
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Children in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children in literature
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Preiss, Richard, editor
Williams, Deanne, editor
ISBN 9781316145685
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