1st Edition
Shakespeare and Child's Play Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen
By Carol Chillington Rutter
Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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Biography
Professor Carol Chillington Rutter teaches at the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick. She is author of Enter the Body (2000).
