Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599-1613) [Hardcover]

This book?investigates how the Children of Paul's (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen's Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.Contents Acknowledgements Tables of the Children's Playing Companies' Repertories Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children's Stage Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field's Theatrical Career Bibliography IndexEDEL LAMB is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.