Titlebook: Queering Childhood in Early Modern English Drama and Culture; Jennifer Higginbotham,Mark Albert Johnston Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if appli

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Moth and the Pedagogical Ideal in ,ut of those discussions as he is cut from performances. Moth, imbued with this tradition, uses his wit to queer the humanist pedagogical ideal by exposing how it is in language’s queer flexibility that true wit resides.

Dissonance

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Book 2018raries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomites, roaring girls and schoolboys, precocious princes and raucous tomboys, boy actors and female apprentices, while discussing a broad array of topics, from animal studies

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Playing the Early Modern Tomboy,llicit masculinized female desire, tomboys queer our perceptions of early modern categories of childhood by exposing boyish masculinity as a construction. As J. Halberstam says of female masculinity in general, early modern tomboys are “the rejected scraps of dominant masculinity” that enable male masculinity to “appear to be the real thing.”

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,Queer Apprenticeship in Shakespeare’s ,ly suggesting that barbarity, like civility, must be taught and learned, the corrupted models of apprenticeship the play depicts advance inverted, distorted, profane versions of the cultural ideal, thereby promoting not progress or improvement but rather a backward, barren, and stagnant cycle of bloodshed, violence, and revenge.

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,Queering Gender, Age, and Status in Early Modern Children’s Drama, plays may indulge in fantasies of bodily integrity, but the ubiquitous presence of the boy actor means that they also demonstrate the arbitrary relationship between gendered and sexed bodies, subverting and complicating normative hierarchies and structures.

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Afterword,ial, human—are they being addressed? This chapter reflects on these questions, exploring the possibilities and challenges inherent in the project of queering early modern childhoods that are indicated by the chapters gathered here, and considering what future directions this work may take.

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Book 2018lism. The collection interrogates the cultural and historical contingencies of childhood in an effort to expose, theorize, historicize, and explicate the spectacular queerness of early modern dramatic depictions of children..

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The Future-Killing Queer and the Future-Negating Child: Camping It Up and Destabilizing Boundaries cast children blurred multiple boundaries—of gender, genre, age, and sexuality—to present a performance that undermined conceptualizations of childhood as a discrete state within a narrative of straight temporal progression.