This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature

This volume investigates the early modern understanding of twinship through new readings of plays, informed by discussions of twins appearing in such literature

A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fond of saying that "children are the futu

Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literar

The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an in