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.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: K. Knowles
EAN: 9781349434725
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 3406 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-01-01
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GENRE: HISTORY / Social History, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
Europe, Literature: history and criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Social and cultural history
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.