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Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear / Christopher Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Christopher, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Massachusetts studies in early modern culture.
- Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Old age in literature.
- Aging in literature.
- Intergenerational relations in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 historians have traditionally maintained?.
- 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
- Gerontophobia and late Elizabethan poetry: "old strange thinges"
- "Confin'd to exhibition": King Lear through the spectacles of age
- Epilogue: figures of retire.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-219-4
- OCLC:
- 830022789
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