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."
Childhood in Shakespeare s Plays challenges the notion that Shakespeare, like other Elizabethans, regarded children as small adults. The author...
