{"product_id":"boy-actors-in-early-modern-england-skill-and-stagecraft-in-the-theatre-paperback-softback-9781009102025","title":"Boy Actors in Early Modern England; Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009102025","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBoy Actors in Early Modern England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSkill and Stagecraft in the Theatre\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHarry R. McCarthy (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009102025, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 March 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.387 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Students and scholars of early modern English drama, history of theatre, history of performance, but also of early modern gender and sexuality, and those interested in the socio-cultural history of boyhood in early modern England, will find this book of much use and a pleasure to read. Future students of teenage and adolescent masculinity, gender, and queer early modern embodiment, as well as trans early modern criticism, will also benefit from engaging in a scholarly dialogue with this volume.' Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation \/ Renaissance et Réforme\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBoy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'All feats of activitie, and motions': Rethinking early modern boyhoods\u003cbr\u003e 2. Staging skill: Movement, metatheatre, and boy actors' theatrical reputations\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'The Bettering of the body': Staging sport in the boy company repertory\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Sport indeede': Star roles as physical showcase\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature:%20history%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDS%5D%22\"\u003eDS\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52462925873432,"sku":"9781009102025","price":20.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009102025i.jpg?v=1785542491","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/boy-actors-in-early-modern-england-skill-and-stagecraft-in-the-theatre-paperback-softback-9781009102025","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}