TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higginbotham,Jennifer
TI  - The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence 
SN  - 9781474429801
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literary Criticism / Shakespeare
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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'
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/d78094f2-e7a1-4dcf-948a-cb4a64e85c11
ER  -