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Shakespeare's Boys : a Cultural History
- 作者: Knowles, Katie, author.
- 其他題名:
- Palgrave Shakespeare studies
- 出版: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- 叢書名: Palgrave Shakespeare studies
- 主題: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation. , Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. , Boys in literature , Children in literature , Boys in literature , Children in literature , DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. , LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. , LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance , LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare , Electronic books. , Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- ISBN: 1137005378 (electronic bk.) 、 9781137005373 (electronic bk.)
- FIND@SFXID: CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.
- 摘要註: "Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History is the first extensive exploration of boyhood in Shakespeare's plays. It examines a range of characters from Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies in their original early modern contexts and surveys their performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day. Focusing on the status of aristocratic boys, the transition from boyhood to manhood and methods of education, it argues that the varied and complex portrayal of boys in Shakespeare reflects the ambiguous and transitional status of boyhood in early modern England, and that the portrayal of these on-stage boys has been a crucial, and sometimes defining, factor in the performance history of Shakespeare's plays. This study embraces this idea of characters in flux, reading Shakespearean boyhood as a continuum in which each historical reincarnation depends upon and reacts against what came before, while influencing what is to come"--
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- 系統號: 005124486 | 機讀編目格式