Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood [electronic resource] /
Williams, D.author.
This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Girls Included!; Part I: Shakespeare's Girls; 1 Peevish and Perverse; 2 Isabelle de France, Child Bride; 3 Enter Ofelia playing on a Lute; 4 Lost Girls; Part II: Stages of Girlhood; 5 A Dancing Princess; 6 The Lady and Comus; Part III: Writing Girls; 7 My Lady Rachells booke; 8 Perpetual Girlhood in The Concealed Fancies; Conclusion: Girlhood After Shakespeare''s Heroines; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Poetry.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.