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- Title
Keeping Boys and Men: Marvelous Pageboys in Romantic Tragicomedy.
- Authors
Trull, Mary
- Abstract
The article talks about the depiction of feminine pageboys in early Jacobean drama, focusing on the romantic tragicomedy of the 17th century. Topics discussed include the categorization of 20th-century cuteness as a minor aesthetic category; the plays "King Lear" and "Merry Wives of Windsor" by William Shakespeare; and the ambiguities of pageboy eroticism in the plays of that time.
- Subjects
EARLY modern English drama; BOYS in literature; TRAGICOMEDY; FEMININITY in literature; KING Lear (Play : Shakespeare); MERRY Wives of Windsor, The (Play : Shakespeare); EROTICISM in literature
- Publication
Early Modern Literary Studies, 2017, Vol 19, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1201-2459
- Publication type
Article