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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.
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.
This is the first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early
modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a
persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of
the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread
assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role
in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And
she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of
texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little
children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city
comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of
the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'. It charts the
emergence of the word 'girl' into early modern English and its
evolution from a gender-neutral term applied to both male and
female children to one used only for female individuals. It
challenges the misconception that girls were largely absent from
English Renaissance literature. It offers a literary history of
female child characters in Renaissance drama, from Tudor interludes
to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries to later
seventeenth-century closet dramas. It features an examination of
how women writers described their own girlhoods.
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