Shakespeare's Boys

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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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.

• cultural history
• eighteenth century
• novel
• twentieth century
• William Shakespeare
• British and Irish Literature

• University of Liverpool, UK

  Katie Knowles

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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