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Sasser, Marvin Tyler.

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Shakespeare and boyhood: Early modern representations and contemporary appropriations.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Shakespeare and boyhood: Early modern representations and contemporary appropriations./
Author:	Sasser, Marvin Tyler.
Description:	386 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-08A(E).
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3688884
ISBN:	9781321677669

Shakespeare and boyhood: Early modern representations and contemporary appropriations.
Sasser, Marvin Tyler.

Shakespeare and boyhood: Early modern representations and contemporary appropriations. - 386 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Southern Mississippi, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation demonstrates that Shakespearean boyhood, both in early modern plays and contemporary reimaginings for young readers, critiques patriarchal and hegemonic ideals through the rhetoric and behavior of boy characters. Although critics have called Shakespeare's boy characters indistinguishable , I find that they provide Shakespeare a unique resource to offer persuasive skepticism about heroic conventions, education, and political instability. This project begins by examining the lexical network of boy in order to chart its uses in early modern England. The subsequent three chapters establish how Shakespeare uses boys to comment on a range of ideal manhoods, such as the chivalrous knight, the Herculean hero, the humanist man of moderation, and several dramatic representations of the monarchy. Having established the diverse ways Shakespeare uses boy characters to negotiate masculine gender ideals, this project then investigates how Shakespearean boyhood is appropriated in contemporary children's literature. I discover that the gender features regarding Shakespeare's boys noted in previous chapters find expression in these later adaptations, and that the gender complexities that exist in Tudor-Stuart drama and culture appear in these boy books and point to a more fluid notion of gender identity than critics have hitherto considered.

ISBN: 9781321677669Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.

Shakespeare and boyhood: Early modern representations and contemporary appropriations.
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