Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England

Voorkant
Cambridge University Press, 1998 - 260 pagina's
In early modern England, boys and girls learned to be masculine or feminine as they learned to read and write. This book explores how gender differences, instilled through specific methods of instruction in literacy, were scrutinised in the English public theatre. Close readings of plays from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost to Thomas Dekker's Whore of Babylon, and of poems, didactic treatises and autobiographical writings from the same period, offer a richly textured analysis of the interaction between didactic precepts, literary models, and historical men and women.
 

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List of illustrations xiii
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Enter Hamlet reading on a book
57
She reads and smiles
89
Writes in his tables
138
She writes
165
Notes
196
Bibliography
234
Index
253
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