Child in Shakespeare

Focusing on Shakespeare's unique interest in the young body, the life stage, and 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.

List of contents

• 1: 'And all my children?'


• 2: Never such Innocence: Mourning Children in the History Plays


• 3: The end of the beginning: Shakespeare's Tragic Children


• 4: 'Love is proved in the letting go': Marriage, Space, and Gender in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado about Nothing


• 5: 'Time is chasing us'. Regret, Time, and the Child Eternal in the Late Plays


• 6: 'Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, / Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!'

About the author

Charlotte Scott has written widely on Shakespeare, including two books entitled Shakespeare and the Idea of the Book (OUP, 2007) and Shakespeare's Nature: from Culture to Cultivation (OUP, 2014) as well as articles and essays. She reviews for Shakespeare Survey and is a frequent contributor to literary festivals and public events. She has taught Shakespeare at Goldsmiths for 14 years.

Summary

Focusing on Shakespeare's unique interest in the young body, the life stage, and 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.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Scott, Charlotte (Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare Scott, Scott Charlotte
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.2021
• EAN: 9780192843074
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284307-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights