Shakespeare And The Performance Of Girlhood (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies)

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: D. Williams
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Apr 23, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 288 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137024755
• • ISBN-13: 9781137024756