Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org
Database: WSB
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TY  - BOOK
PB  - Routledge
SE  - xvi + 265
CY  - New York and Abingdon
ID  - aaao709
T1  - Shakespeare's Forgotten Allegory: Vice, Virtue, and Spoilt Children
AU  - Real, Julian
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
KW  - trope
LA  - English
AB  - Uncovers the significance of the "cockered child" stock character in medieval and early modern drama, where boys were portrayed as "immature and effeminate" and girls as "too masculine for their own good." Considers cockered child figure in Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night.
ER  -