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Shakespeare and child's play : performing lost boys on stage and screen / Carol Chillington Rutter.

  • Accession number

    83415378

  • Class

    Reading Room - 48.4/RUT

  • ISBN

    9780415365192 (pbk.), 0415365198 (pbk.), 9780415365185 (hbk.), 041536518X (hbk.)

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    250 p. ; 22 cm.

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Formatted contents note: 1. 'Behold the child' or parts for children -- 2. The alphabet of memory in Titus Andronicus -- 3. Curing thought in The winter's tale -- Precious motives, seeds of time: killing futures in Macbeth. Summary, etc: 'Childness' - the essential nature of being a child - remains a vital critical issue for us today. In this text, Carol Rutter shows how recent performances on stage and film have used the range of Shakespeare's insights in order to re-examine and re-think these issues in terms of today's society and culture.