Stephannie Gearhart

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367735005
• ISBN-10: 0367735008
• Artikelnr.: 69891484

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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