Shakespeare’s Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture

Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the ’signs’ of the maturation used to construct Shakespeare’s many adolescent characters.

Victoria Sparey is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Exeter