The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence
Jennifer Higginbotham
Abstract
The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system in England, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the ‘girl’ played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare’s late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult “roaring girls” in city comedies, and this monograph offers the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and sevente ... More
Keywords: Girls, Girlhood, Early Modern England, Gender, Sex, Shakespeare
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748655908 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2013 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655908.001.0001 |
