Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England

By: Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams

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Synopsis: What did childhood mean in early modern England? To answer this question, this book examines two key contemporary institutions: the school and the stage. The rise of grammar schools and universities, and of the professional stage featuring boy actors, reflect the culture's massive investment in children. In this collection, an international group of well-respected scholars examines how the representation of children by major playwrights and poets reflected the period's educational and cultural values. This book contains chapters that range from Shakespeare and Ben Jonson to the contemporary plays of Tom Stoppard, and that explore childhood in relation to classical humanism, medicine, art, and psychology, revealing how early modern performance and educational practices produced attitudes to childhood that still resonate to this day.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781108161176
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 08/22/17
Copyrighted By:: Cambridge University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.