Shakespeare and Child's Play - Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen (Hardcover)

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he put sons against fathers, servants against masters, innocence against experience, testing the notion of masculinity, manners, morals, and the limits of patriarchal power. He explored the nature of relationships and ideas about parenting in terms of nature and nurture, permissiveness and discipline, innocence and evil. He wrote about education, adolescent rebellion, delinquency, fostering, and child-killing, as well as the idea of the redemptive child who 'cures' diseased adult imaginations. 'Childness' - the essential nature of being a child - remains a vital critical issue for us today. In Shakespeare and Child's-Play Carol Rutter shows how recent performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare's insights in order to re-examine and re-think these issues in terms of today's society and culture.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Carol Chillington Rutter
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-36518-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN:	0-415-36518-X
Barcode:	9780415365185

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