Shakespeare and the performance of girlhood /
Williams, Deanne,author.
Includes bibliographical references (248-266) and index.
Introduction: Girls included! -- Part 1. Shakespeare's girls. Peevish and perverse -- Isabelle de France, child bride -- Enter Ofelia playing on a lute -- Lost girls -- part 2. Stages of girlhood. A dancing princess -- The lady and Comus -- Part 3. Writing girls. My lady Rachells booke -- Perpetual girlhood in The concealed fancies -- Conclusion: Girlhood after Shakespeare's heroines.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Girls in literature.