The Child in Shakespeare
Charlotte Scott
Reviews and Awards
"Scott's style is reader friendly, even poetic. Recommended." - J.S. Carducci, CHOICE
"Charlotte Scott's The Child in Shakespeare brings into focus particularly vulnerable figures within that space. Organized by genre, and surveying Shakespeare's career-long interest in all phases of childhood, from infancy to adolescence, Scott's book opens with a vivid account of royal children in the early history plays, who, she argues, are forced to enter an "adult world" of political intrigue for which they are hopelessly ill-equipped." - Laura Kolb, Times Literary Supplement
"The Child in Shakespeare calls scholar-teachers working with Shakespeare to think deeply about how representations of unique and particular children and childhoods make meaning in Shakespeare's plays and beyond — a call that is of utmost importance in this particular political moment." - Alicia Andrzejewski, College of William & Mary, Renaissance Quarterly