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Title Shakespeare and childhood / edited by Kate Chedgzoy, Susanne Greenhalgh and Robert Shaughnessy
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 284 pages)
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
Summary This 2007 collection offered the first definitive study of a surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation, namely the relationship between Shakespeare, children and childhood from Shakespeare's time to the present. It offers a thorough mapping of the domain in which Shakespearean childhoods need to be studied, in order to show how studying Shakespearean childhoods makes significant contributions both to Shakespearean scholarship, and to the history of childhood and its representations. The book is divided into two sections, each with a substantial introduction outlining relevant critical debates and contextualizing the rich combination of fresh research and readings of familiar Shakespearean texts that characterize the individual essays. The first part of the book examines the significance of the figure of the child in the Shakespearean canon. The second part traces the rich histories of negotiation, exchange and appropriation that have characterised Shakespeare's subsequent relations to the cultures of childhood in literary realms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-276) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Children
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
SUBJECT Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Shakespeare, William. swd
Subject English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism
Children in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
Children in literature
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan
Kind Motiv
Drama
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Chedgzoy, Kate.
Greenhalgh, Susanne.
Shaughnessy, Robert, 1962-
ISBN 9780511342523
0511342527
0511340885
9780511340888
9780511483493
051148349X