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ncourages new interactions with historical and political deb.This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance who

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,Queer Time and “Sideways Growth” in ,hryn Bond Stockton, “growing sideways” instead of “growing up.” Unlike Sebastian Wengrave and Mary Fitzallard, Moll, like Stockton’s “queer child,” delays temporal advancement and revels in the time before marriage as she refuses her own entrance into the institution. Furthermore, Moll’s physical si

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,Queer Apprenticeship in Shakespeare’s ,the production of normative adulthood, this chapter focuses on depictions of queerly unproductive or detrimental apprenticeship in Shakespeare’s .. While the play does not depict masters or apprentices literally, its focus on generational education and mimicry, along with its conflation of barber-su

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,“A Prince so Young as I”: Agequeerness and Marlowe’s Boy King,d this character normatively, I argue instead for a queered subjectivity in the boy that enables resistant self-fashioning. Marlowe queers young Edward, not in a homoerotic sense, but rather by destabilizing the prince’s age, insisting on his non-normative growth. He first scripts the boy as much yo