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