Childhood in Shakespeare's Plays

ISBN-13: 9780820476469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 139 str.

Morriss Henry Partee

Opis

Childhood in Shakespeare s Plays challenges the notion that Shakespeare, like other Elizabethans, regarded children as small adults. The author shows how the playwright s myriad references to childhood give an additional dimension to his adult figures. Providing the first detailed analysis of the child characters in Richard III, King John, Macbeth, and The Winter s Tale, this book proves that Shakespeare did not depict children as unnaturally precocious or sentimentally innocent."

O autorze

The Author: Morriss Henry Partee is Professor of English at the University of Utah. He received his doctorate in English literature from The University of Texas, Austin. In addition to a variety of articles in scholarly journals, he is the author of The Poetics of Plato: The Authority of Beauty (1981) and Cyberteaching: Communication Technology on the Modern Campus (2002).