Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Richard Preiss is the author of Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre (Cambridge, 2014) and editor of Shakespeare's The Tempest (2008). Deanne Williams is the author of Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood (2014). Her first book, The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare (Cambridge, 2004), won the Roland Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Klappentext This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child. Zusammenfassung Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England! this book examines the role of the child in two key early modern institutions! the school and the stage! and shows! in turn! how these institutions shaped our understanding of childhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Shakespearean Childhoods: 1. Hamlet's boyhood Seth Lerer; 2. The traffic in children: shipwrecked Shakespeare, precarious Pericles Joseph Campana; 3. Incapable and shallow innocents: mourning Shakespeare's children in Richard III and The Winter's Tale Charlotte Scott; Part II. Beyond the Boy Actor: 4. Speaking like a child: staging children's speech in early modern drama Lucy Munro; 5. Shakespeare versus Blackfriars: satiric comedy, domestic tragedy, and the boy actor in Othello Bart Van Es; 6. Cupid's metamorphosis: John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis and the return of the children's playing companies Bastian Kuhl; Part III. Girls and Boys: 7. The further adventures of Ganymede Stephen Orgel; 8. Chastity, speech, and the girl masquer Deanne Williams; 9. Milton and female perspiration Douglas Trevor; Part IV. Afterlives: 10. 'Too green/yet for lust, but not for love': Andrew Marvell and the invention of children's literature Blaine Greteman; 11. All Macbeth's sons James J. Marino; 12. Modern retrospectives: childhood and education in Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean plays Elizabeth Pentland....

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: EDITED BY RICHARD PR, Richard (University of Utah) Williams Preiss, Richard Williams Preiss
• Con la collaborazione di: Richard Preiss (Editore), Richard (University of Utah) Preiss (Editore), Preiss Richard (Editore), Deanne Williams (Editore), Deanne (York University Williams (Editore), Williams Deanne (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 02.05.2017
• EAN: 9781107094185
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09418-5
• Pagine: 308
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights