Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-276) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Note on the text; 1 Introduction; NOTES; Part 1 Shakespeare's children; 2 Introduction: 'What, are they children?'; 3 Little princes: Shakespeare's royal children; 4 Father-child identi.cation, loss and gender in Shakespeare's plays; 5 Character building: Shakespeare's children in context; 6 Coriolanus and the little eyases: the boyhood of Shakespeare's hero; 7 Procreation, child-loss and the gendering of the sonnet; Part 2 Children's Shakespeares
8 Introduction: reinventing Shakespearean childhoods9 Play's the thing: agency in children's Shakespeares; 10 Shakespeare in the Victorian children's periodicals; 11 Growing up with Shakespeare: the Terry family memoirs; 12 Shakespeare in the company of boys; 13 Dream children: staging and screening childhood in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 14 Shakespeare (')tween media and markets in the 1990s and beyond; Appendix 1 Children in Shakespeare's plays: an annotated checklist; INFANTS/BABES IN ARMS; CHILDREN IN SERVICE: PAGES AND MESSENGERS, SINGERS AND PERFORMERS; INNOCENT AND NOBLE VICTIMS
PREGNANT WOMEN ON STAGEMISCELLANEOUS; NOTES; Appendix 2 Bibliography of Shakespeare and childhood in English; I EDITIONS AND ADAPTATIONS FOR CHILDREN 250; II SHAKESPEARE IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS; III AUDIO-VISUAL; IV MISCELLANEOUS; V CRITICAL WORKS; Index
