Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre

1. Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods
Edel Lamb

2. The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children’s Stage
Edel Lamb

3. Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children
Edel Lamb

4. Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player
Edel Lamb

5. Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre
Edel Lamb

6. Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field’s Theatrical Career
Edel Lamb

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Theatre History, History of Britain and Ireland, History of Early Modern Europe, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature