El. knyga: Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre

'Brilliantly written and argued, Boy Actors in Early Modern England is a tour de force, transforming our understanding of the boy actor. Harry McCarthy's book is the first study to consider accomplishments of boy actors across early modern performance traditions. His close readings, archival work, and practice-based research together reveal the range of the physical, affective, and intellectual contributions of early modern boy actors. A major contribution to theatre history, performance-as-research, and childhood studies, this book will be a model for future research in the field.' Evelyn Tribble, University of Connecticut '[ Boy Actors in Early Modern England] identifies a thrilling new field of study . . . This ambitious book - ambitious about ways of doing research, as well as its subject - sheds much light on the topic of manual work brought to performances by boys precisely because of their age.' Times Literary Supplement ' readers will appreciate the monograph's sustained and sophisticated attention in the final two chapters to present-day performance practice as means of exploring theater history, including his own work with professional actors at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.' Scott A. Trudell, Shakespeare Quarterly '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