Shakespeare and childhood / Kate Chedgzoy, Susanne Greenhalgh, Robert Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chedgzoy, Kate, author.

Greenhalgh, Susanne, author.

Shaughnessy, Robert, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Children.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation--History.

English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.

English drama.

Children in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Shakespeare & Childhood

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2007 collection offered the first definitive study of a surprisingly underdeveloped area of scholarly investigation, namely the relationship between Shakespeare, children and childhood from Shakespeare's time to the present. It offers a thorough mapping of the domain in which Shakespearean childhoods need to be studied, in order to show how studying Shakespearean childhoods makes significant contributions both to Shakespearean scholarship, and to the history of childhood and its representations. The book is divided into two sections, each with a substantial introduction outlining relevant critical debates and contextualizing the rich combination of fresh research and readings of familiar Shakespearean texts that characterize the individual essays. The first part of the book examines the significance of the figure of the child in the Shakespearean canon. The second part traces the rich histories of negotiation, exchange and appropriation that have characterised Shakespeare's subsequent relations to the cultures of childhood in literary realms.

Contents:

Shakespeare's children

What, are they children? / Kate Chedgzoy

Little princes : Shakespeare's royal children in context / Catherine Belsey

Father-child identification, loss, and gender in Shakespeare's plays / Hattie Fletcher and Marianne Novy

Character building : Shakespeare's children in context / A.J. Piesse

Coriolanus and the little eyases : the boyhood of Shakespeare's hero / Lucy Munro

Procreation, child-loss, and the gendering of the sonnet / Patricia Phillippy

Children's Shakespeares

Reinventing Shakespearean childhoods / Susanne Greenhalgh

Play's the thing : agency in children's Shakespeares / Naomi J. Miller

Shakespeare in the Victorian children's periodicals / Kathryn Prince

Growing up with Shakespeare : the memoirs of the Terry family / Pascale Aebischer

Shakespeare in the company of boys / Kate Chedgzoy

Dream children : staging and screening childhood in a midsummer night's dream / Susanne Greenhalgh

Shakespeare (')tween media and markets in the 1990s and beyond / Richard Burt

Shakespeare's child characters / Mark Lawhorn.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-276) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18026-0

1-281-08510-3

9786611085100

1-139-13264-4

0-511-34199-7

0-511-34146-6

0-511-34088-5

0-511-48349-X

0-511-34252-7

OCLC:

476123841