Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare's England

ISBN-13: 9780367735005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str.

Stephannie Gearhart

Opis

This book examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in Early Modern England.

Spis treści

Introduction: historicizing generational conflict

Part I: Youth

1. Blood vs. manners: youth’s quest for independence in The Merchant of Venice

2. Familial contracts: financial inheritance in the plays of Jonson and Middleton

Part II: Elders

3. "The very latest counsel that ever I shall breathe": 2 Henry IV, Hamlet, and ideological inheritance

4 Old fools and serpents’ teeth: defining age and the terms of the parent-child relationship in King Lear

Conclusion: A difficult age

Index

O autorze

Stephannie S. Gearhart is an Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, USA.