Shakespeare's Boys

A Cultural History

K. Knowles (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-43472-5 (ISBN)

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Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.

Katie Knowles is a University Teacher in the University of Liverpool's School of English, UK. She specialises in and has published articles on Shakespearean performance histories and representations of childhood in literature.

Preface Note on Sources Introduction PART I: EARLY MODERN BOYHOODS 1. Noble Imps: Doomed Heirs 2. Separating the Men from the Boys: Roman Plays 3. Pages and Schoolboys: Early Modern Educations PART II: AFTERLIVES 4. Sentiment and Sensation: The Long Eighteenth Century 5. Pathos and Tenderness: The Victorian Era 6. Damage and Delinquency: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Zusatzinfo	IX, 266 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Cultural History • Eighteenth Century • Novel • Twentieth century • William Shakespeare
ISBN-10	1-349-43472-8 / 1349434728
ISBN-13	978-1-349-43472-5 / 9781349434725
Zustand	Neuware