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

by Lamb, Edel

• ISBN13: 9780230202610
• ISBN10: 0230202616
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

EDEL LAMB is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Tables of the Children's Playing Companies' Repertories	p. x
Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods	p. 1
The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children's Stage	p. 17
Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children	p. 43
Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player	p. 67
Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre	p. 92
Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field's Theatrical Career	p. 118
Notes	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 182
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