Nina Taunton

Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new and timely exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period, this book draws upon both factual and literary material from a range of genres.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780415809078
• ISBN-10: 041580907X
• Artikelnr.: 40185034

Autorenporträt

Nina Taunton is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University. She is author of 1590s Drama and Militarism: Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's Henry V and coeditor with Darryll Grantley of The Body in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Whirligig of Time
Chapter One: Commonplaces and Stereotypes
(Comedy of Errors, Dialogue of Comfort)
Chapter Two: Old and Young
(The Merchant of Venice, The Old Law, King Lear)
Chapter Three: Disgraceful Old Age (1): men behaving badly
(King Lear, The Old Law, The Broken Heart)
Chapter Four: Disgraceful Old Age (2): women behaving worse
(The Witch, the Witch of Edmonton, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon)
Chapter Five: Politics and the Workplace
(The Courtier, The Old Law, Coriolanus)
Epilogue: All's Well that Ends Well
Notes
Bibliography
Index