Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England

This 1999 book examines the role of literacy-education in promoting gender difference, as shown in English Renaissance texts.

List of contents

Preface; 1. On his breast writ; 2. Enter Hamlet reading on a book; 3. She reads and smiles; 4. Writes in his tables; 5. She writes; Bibliography.

Summary

In early modern England, boys and girls learned to be masculine or feminine as they learned to read and write. This 1999 book explores how gender differences, instilled through specific methods of instruction in literacy, were scrutinised in the English public theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Eve Rachele Sanders
• Assisted by: Anne Barton (Editor), Stephen Orgel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521582346
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58234-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance