Childhood, Education And The Stage In Early Modern England

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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.


  • | Author: Richard Preiss|Deanne Williams
  • | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2022
  • | Number of Pages: 308 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
  • | ISBN-10: 1107476054
  • | ISBN-13: 9781107476059
Author:
Richard Preiss, Deanne Williams
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date:
Jun 23, 2022
Number of pages:
308 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Literary Criticism
ISBN-10:
1107476054
ISBN-13:
9781107476059