The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters: gender transgression, adolescence
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Beteilige Person: Higginbotham, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture
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Beschreibung: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 ci
Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:240 pages
ISBN:9780748655915
0748655913
0748655905
9780748655908
9781299154780
1299154786