TY  - GEN
T1  - The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters
A1  - Higginbotham, Jennifer
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-30688
AB  - The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that 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. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.
SN  - 9780748655908
SN  - 9780748655939
SN  - 9780748655922
KW  - Literature
KW  - girls
KW  - girlhood
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Early Modern England
KW  - sexuality
KW  - Shakespeare
KW  - Femininity
KW  - childhood
KW  - women writers
KW  - London
KW  - William Shakespeare
ER  -