Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear /

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How did Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose works mark the last quarter century of Elizabeth I’s reign as one of the richest moments in all of English literature, regard and represent old age? Was late life seen primarily as a time of withdrawal and preparation for death, as scholars and histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Martin, Christopher, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Colección:Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.
Temas:
1500-1700
Intergenerational relations in literature.
Aging in literature.
Old age in literature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Relations entre générations dans la littérature.
Vieillissement dans la littérature.
Vieillesse dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Aging in literature
English literature > Early modern
Intergenerational relations in literature
Old age in literature
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Vieillesse > Dans la littérature.
Relations entre générations > Dans la littérature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Age, agency, and early modern constitutions
  • Elizabeth I's politics of longevity
  • Out to pasture : the bucolic elder in Spenser, Sidney, and their heirs
  • Sexuality and senescence in late Elizabethan poetry : "old strange thinges"
  • "Confin'd to exhibition" : King Lear through the spectacles of age
  • Epilogue : figures of retire.

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