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...

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Main Author: Martin, Christopher, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Relations entre generations > Dans la litterature.
Vieillesse > Dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Old age in literature.
Intergenerational relations in literature.
English literature > Early modern.
Aging in literature.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
Vieillesse dans la litterature.
Vieillissement dans la litterature.
Relations entre generations dans la litterature.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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