Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England. Stephannie Gearhart illustrates how a variety of texts – including drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton – placed elders’ and youths’ voices in dialogue with one another to construct the period’s ideology of age and shape elder-youth relations.
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Stephannie Gearhart Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 421g ISBN:9781138094116 ISBN 10: 1138094110 Series:Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama Pages: 180 Publication Date:23 March 2018 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
"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"
Stephannie S. Gearhart is an Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, USA.