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Shakespeare's Boys

A Cultural History

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Katie Knowles

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies (PASHST)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 1-9

  3. Early Modern Boyhoods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Noble Imps: Doomed Heirs

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 13-62

    3. Separating the Men from the Boys: Roman Plays

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 63-89

    4. Pages and Schoolboys: Early Modern Educations

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 90-120

  4. Afterlives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Sentiment and Sensation: The Long Eighteenth Century

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 123-147

    3. Pathos and Tenderness: The Victorian Era

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 148-175

    4. Damage and Delinquency: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

      • Katie Knowles
      Pages 176-209

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 210-257
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About this book

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Katie Knowles

About the author

Katie Knowles is a University Teacher in the University of Liverpool's School of English, UK. She specialises in and has published articles on Shakespearean performance histories and representations of childhood in literature.

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