Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

The Resource Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

Label

Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jennifer Higginbotham, Mark Albert Johnston

Language

eng

Summary

This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies to performance theory, from queer time to queer fat, from teaching strategies to casting choices, and from metamorphic sex changes to rape and cannibalism. The collection interrogates the cultural and historical contingencies of childhood in an effort to expose, theorize, historicize, and explicate the spectacular queerness of early modern dramatic depictions of children

Cataloging source

AZU

Dewey number

822.3093523

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN715-PN749

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Context

Context of Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

Context

Work of