Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out the experience of growing old and aims to give readers a sense of the diversity involved in the theorising, politics and gendering of old age and ageing.

Fiction of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period. It deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out the experience of growing old and aims to give readers a sense of the diversity involved in the theorising, politics and gendering of old age and ageing.

Starting with the female body of late medieval literature, this text moves on to consider the representation of gendered bodies in later writing. The essays in the book intend to show how late medieval and early modern narratives function to produce specialized and discrete languages of the body.

A discussion of war and militarism in the drama of the 1590s. It demonstrates that plays about war and the "art of war" literature proliferating in the 1590s intervene in the military realities of the last few years of Elizabeth's reign much more closely than is appreciated.