Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture...

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Victoria Sparey

Shakespeare's Adolescents

Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture

Victoria Sparey

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Manchester University Press
12 March 2024

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Shakespeare studies & criticism; Age groups: adolescents

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays.

Using early modern medical knowledge and an understanding of contemporary theatrical practices, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of 'signs' associated with an individual's physical maturation. Each chapter explores the implications of different 'signs' of puberty, in verbal cues, facial adornments, vocal traits and body sizes, to illuminate how Shakespeare presents vibrant adolescent selves and stories.

By analysing female and male puberty together in its discussion of adolescence, Shakespeare's adolescents provides fresh insight into the age-based symmetry of early modern adolescent identities. The book uses the adolescent's state of transformation to illuminate how the unfixed nature of adolescence was valued in early modern culture and through Shakespeare's celebrated characters and actors.

By: Victoria Sparey
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781526168191
ISBN 10: 1526168197
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 12 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Victoria Sparey is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Exeter

Reviews for Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture

'A book well worth reading, especially for graduate students and other researchers.' —CHOICE ‘This is a treasure trove of new and fascinating insights into the way theatre companies staged adolescence. It is also a poignant commentary on Shakespeare's empathy towards the teenage years as a time of promise and vitality and yet so often threatened by decline and age.’ —Ursula Potter, The University of Sydney ‘Shakespeare’s adolescents offers a timely new understanding of adolescence in early modern culture as a vibrant and esteemed stage of life. Arguing for commonalities across the gendered experience of youth, while remaining attentive to differences, it innovatively puts age ahead of gender to read Shakespeare’s youthful characters and the theatrical representation of aging bodies afresh. It is essential reading for Shakespeare scholars and students as well as anyone interested in age, theatre and the body in the early modern period.’ —Edel Lamb, Queen's University Belfast -- .