EDEL LAMB is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.

• Contents Acknowledgements Tables of the Children's Playing Companies' Repertories Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children's Stage Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field's Theatrical Career Bibliography Index

EDEL LAMB is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.

• Contents Acknowledgements Tables of the Children's Playing Companies' Repertories Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children's Stage Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field's Theatrical Career Bibliography Index

EDEL LAMB is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland.

• Contents Acknowledgements Tables of the Children's Playing Companies' Repertories Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children's Stage Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field's Theatrical Career Bibliography Index