The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters is written by Jennifer Higginbotham and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474429807 (ISBN 10) and 9781474429801 (ISBN 13).

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 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'.