The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters
Higginbotham, Jennifer
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / Jennifer Higginbotham. - 1 online resource (242 p.)
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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'.
9781474429801
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / Jennifer Higginbotham. - 1 online resource (242 p.)
Access copy available to the general public.
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'.
9781474429801
Literary Criticism / Renaissance
Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
Literature--History and criticism
Electronic books.