Shakespeare's Boys [electronic resource] : A Cultural History /
Knowles, K.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgements                                   ""; ""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                                                                 ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Bibliography                   ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature—Philosophy.
Civilization—History.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural History.