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  • Chapter 10 - Boy Parts in Early Shakespeare

  • Edited by Rory Loughnane, University of Kent, Canterbury, Andrew J. Power
  • Book:
    Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594
    Published online:
    17 April 2020
    Print publication:
    30 April 2020, pp 220-234

  • Summary

    This chapter examines some of the trends that emerge in roles written for child actors in Shakespeare’s early plays. It considers some similarities in types of roles and asks how we might weigh this evidence in complementing recent research on how child actors develop in the period. In surveying the range of smaller child roles in the early plays it raises interesting possibilities for the nature of in-troup pedagogy and/or training. It further raises questions about the relationship between text and performance, and between one text and another, and between Shakespeare and the various companies that he is associated with and the collaborators that he works alongside. It argues that we can learn something about how child actors develop in the period by re-examining the roles that were written for them in this early period of Shakespeare’s career.