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Author Scott, Charlotte.

Title The child in Shakespeare / Charlotte Scott
Edition First edition
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Contents 1. 'And all my children?' -- 2. 'Never such innocence' -- 3. The end of the beginning -- 4. 'Love is proved in the letting go' -- 5. 'Time is chasing us' -- 6. 'Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, | Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!'
Summary This book examines the child on Shakespeare's stage. As a life force, an impassioned plea for justice, a legacy, history, memory, or image of love or violence, children are everywhere in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on Shakespeare's unique interest in the young body, the life stage, the parental and social dynamic, this book offers the first sustained account of the role and representation of the child in Shakespeare's dramatic imagination. Drawing on a vast range of contemporary texts, including parenting manuals, household and pedagogic texts, as well as books on nursing and maternity, childbirth and child rearing, Shakespeare's Children explores the contexts in which the idea of the child is mobilized as a body and image on the early modern stage. Understanding the child, not only as a specific life stage, but also as a role and an abstraction of feeling, this book examines why Shakespeare, who showed little interest in writing for children in the playing companies, wrote so powerfully about them on his stage
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Children
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Children
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Subject Children in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
Children
Children in literature
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191867088
019186708X
9780192563767
0192563769