Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood

1. Introduction: Girls Included!
Deanne Williams

Part I. Shakespeare’s Girls

2. Peevish and Perverse
Deanne Williams

3. Isabelle de France, Child Bride
Deanne Williams

4. Enter Ofelia playing on a Lute
Deanne Williams

5. Lost Girls
Deanne Williams

Part II. Stages of Girlhood

6. A Dancing Princess
Deanne Williams

7. The Lady and Comus
Deanne Williams

Part III. Writing Girls

8. My Lady Rachells booke
Deanne Williams

9. Perpetual Girlhood in The Concealed Fancies
Deanne Williams

10. Conclusion: Girlhood After Shakespeare’s Heroines
Deanne Williams

Nyckelord: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics