Girlhood Of Shakespeare S Sisters

Author : Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1474429807

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters by Jennifer Higginbotham Pdf

The first full-length study of how the concept of the 'girl' was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. 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'.

Author : Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748655915

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Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters by Jennifer Higginbotham Pdf

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'.

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000022091710

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : D. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137024763

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Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood by D. Williams Pdf

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts the development of Shakespeare's treatment of the girl as a dramatic and literary figure, and explores the impact of Shakespeare's girl characters on the history of early modern girls as performers, patrons, and authors.

Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750928

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Shakespeare’s Things by Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky Pdf

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Girls
ISBN : UCLA:L0073613929

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ariane M. Balizet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351372039

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Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies by Ariane M. Balizet Pdf

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies posits that Shakespeare in popular culture is increasingly becoming the domain of the adolescent girl, and engages the interdisciplinary field of Girls’ Studies to analyze adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Through chapters on film, television, young adult fiction, and web series aimed at girl readers and audiences, this volume explores the impact of girl cultures and concerns on Shakespeare’s afterlife in popular culture and the classroom. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies argues that girls hold a central place in Shakespearean adaptation, and that studying Shakespeare through the lens of contemporary girlhoods can generate new approaches to Renaissance literature as well as popular culture aimed at girls and young people of marginalized genders. Drawing on contemporary cultural discourses ranging from Abstinence-Only Sex Education and Shakespeare in the US Common Core to rape culture and coming out, this book addresses the overlap between Shakespeare’s timeless girl heroines and modern popular cultures that embrace figures like Juliet and Ophelia to understand and validate the experiences of girls. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies theorizes Shakespeare’s past and present cultural authority as part of an intersectional approach to adaptation in popular culture.

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1323127636

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : Diana E. Henderson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838644768

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Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43 by Diana E. Henderson Pdf

Author : Charlotte Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192563774

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The Child in Shakespeare by Charlotte Scott Pdf

This book examines the child on Shakespeare's stage. As a life force, an impassioned plea for justice, a legacy, history, memory or image of love or violence, children are everywhere in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on Shakespeare's unique interest in the young body, the life stage, and the parental and social dynamic, this book offers the first sustained account of the role and representation of the child in Shakespeare's dramatic imagination. Drawing on a vast range of contemporary texts, including parenting manuals and household and pedagogic texts, as well as books on nursing and maternity, child birth, and child rearing, The Child in Shakespeare explores the contexts in which the idea of the child is mobilised as a body and image on the early modern stage. Understanding the child, not only as a specific life stage, but also as a role and an abstraction of feeling, this book examines why Shakespeare, who showed little interest in writing for children in the playing companies, wrote so powerfully about them on his stage.

Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350343214

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Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Deanne Williams Pdf

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, this book demonstrates that the girl is actually a well-documented category of performer and a key participant in the drama of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It explores evidence of the girl actor in archival records of payment, eyewitness accounts, stage directions, paintings, and in the plays and masques that were explicitly composed for girls, and, in some cases, by them. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls' participation in medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques. This book situates its historical study of the girl actor within the wider contexts of 'girl culture', including girls as singers, translators and authors. By examining the impact of the girl actor on constructions of girlhood in the work of Shakespeare – whose girl characters register and evoke the power of the performing girl – Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance argues that girls' dramatic, musical and literary performances actively shaped medieval and early modern culture. It shows how the active presence and participation of girls shaped medieval and Renaissance culture, and it reveals how some of its best-known literary and dramatic texts address, represent, and reflect upon girl children, not as an imagined ideal, but as a lived reality.

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026770331

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026770330

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: in a Series of Fifteen Tales by Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke Pdf

Author : Sophie Duncan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351967600

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Shakespeare’s Props by Sophie Duncan Pdf

Cognitive approaches to drama have enriched our understanding of Early Modern playtexts, acting and spectatorship. This monograph is the first full-length study of Shakespeare’s props and their cognitive impact. Shakespeare’s most iconic props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for their plays: a strawberry-spotted handkerchief instantly recalls Othello; a skull Hamlet. One reason for stage properties’ neglect by cognitive theorists may be the longstanding tendency to conceptualise props as detachable body parts: instead, this monograph argues for props as detachable parts of the mind. Through props, Shakespeare’s characters offload, reveal and intervene in each other’s cognition, illuminating and extending their affect. Shakespeare’s props are neither static icons nor substitutes for the body, but volatile, malleable, and dangerously exposed extensions of his characters’ minds. Recognising them as such offers new readings of the plays, from the way memory becomes a weapon in Hamlet’s Elsinore, to the pleasures and perils of Early Modern gift culture in Othello. The monograph illuminates Shakespeare’s exploration of extended cognition, recollection and remembrance at a time when the growth of printing was forcing Renaissance culture to rethink the relationship between memory and the object. Readings in Shakespearean stage history reveal how props both carry audience affect and reveal cultural priorities: some accrue cultural memories, while others decay and are forgotten as detritus of the stage.

Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005537642

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines by Mary Cowden Clarke Pdf