The Child as Other in Shakespeare’s Plays

Nastić Radmila

doi:10.2478/v10320-012-0001-1

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The Child as Other in Shakespeare’s Plays

Gender Studies

Volume 11 (2012): Issue Supplement (December 2012)

By: Nastić Radmila

Open Access

|Dec 2012

Abstract

Although there are not many children in Shakespeare’s plays, his treatment of them is quite unique, both for his own time and today. Shakespeare’s children are authentic selves who frequently possess extraordinary intellect and vision. Shakespeare’s introduction of child characters as victims highlights his implicit condemnation of violence as embodied in people in power.

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