192 research outputs found
Rick Bragg, 1997 Harry M. and Edel Ayers Lecture Series 1
No full textAuthor Rick Bragg was featured at the Harry M. and Edel Ayers Lecture Series held November 19, 1997 on the 11th floor of the Houston Cole Library at Jacksonville State University.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1990/1381/thumbnail.jp
James, William II, 1902 [December] [31]
No full textpaper copy; Lamb House; Jobe lists only Edel Archive TCPrivate
Rick Bragg, 1997 Harry M. and Edel Ayers Lecture Series 2
No full textAuthor Rick Bragg was featured at the Harry M. and Edel Ayers Lecture Series held November 19, 1997 on the 11th floor of the Houston Cole Library at Jacksonville State University. Shown Rick Bragg chats with Opal A. Lovett after giving his speech.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1990/1382/thumbnail.jp
Learning to be Boys: Reading the Lessons of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Marston’s What You Will
Full text linkThis essay focuses on the lessons of Love’s Labour’s Lost’s pageboy-schoolboy-boy actor, Moth, to examine the production of boyhood in early modern culture. It reads Shakespeare’s boy character alongside John Marston’s schoolboy, Holofernes Pippo, in What You Will to investigate the ways in which school lessons might be deployed to produce aged and gendered identities that complicate traditional understandings of early modern masculinity. Reading the comic staging of lessons in these plays, it will suggest that while the educational system aimed to produce gendered subjects, early modern masculine identities exist as a range of categories on a developmental scale. It will propose that although Moth and Pippo comically expose the limits of many pedagogical methods to produce ‘men’, they demonstrate the ways in which these characters learn to be boys. Finally, it will consider the extent to which this production of early modern age and gender identity in the plays is paralleled by the historical boy actors performing these roles
Review of Julie Ackroyd, Child Actors on the London Stage, Circa 1600: Their Education, Recruitment and Theatrical Success
No full textThis review considers Julie Ackroyd\u27s Child Actors on the London Stage, circa 1600: Their Education, Recruitment and Theatrical Success (2017)
The Literature of Early Modern Childhoods
No full textThe texts adapted for, printed for and marketed to children and youths in the 16th and 17th centuries, the books read by boys and girls in this period, and writings by Renaissance children constitute the literature of early modern childhoods. Yet traditional histories of children’s literature, posing narrow definitions of this genre, have largely overlooked this period. In the past decade, fresh work by early modern scholars attending to the diverse elements of the literature of early modern childhoods has flourished. This essay evaluates the absence of early modern children’s literature from early studies and considers the ways in which this recent work in Renaissance studies has vitally transformed the field through its exploration of alternative definitions of childhood and children’s literature. This work is at an early stage but it has placed the interconnections between early modern childhoods and children’s literature at the centre of both Renaissance studies and childhood studies and has established key topics for future research
Reading Children in Early Modern Culture
No full textThis book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies, early modern literature and the history of reading. Analysing literary representations of children as readers in a range of genres (including ABCs, prayer books, religious narratives, romance, anthologies, school books, drama, translations and autobiography) alongside evidence of the reading experiences of those defined as children in the period, it explores the production of different categories of child readers. Focusing on the ‘good child’ reader, the youth as consumer, ways of reading as a boy and as a girl, and the retrospective recollection of childhood reading, it sheds new light on the ways in which childhood and reading were understood and experienced in the period
Review of Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams, eds. <i>Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England</i>
No full textReview of Jeanne McCarthy, The Children’s Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509–1608
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