Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture

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Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture is written by Jennifer Higginbotham and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319727699 (ISBN 10) and 9783319727691 (ISBN 13).

This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies to performance theory, from queer time to queer fat, from teaching strategies to casting choices, and from metamorphic sex changes to rape and cannibalism. The collection interrogates the cultural and historical contingencies of childhood in an effort to expose, theorize, historicize, and explicate the spectacular queerness of early modern dramatic depictions of children.