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Drama and the politics of generational conflict in Shakespeare's England / Stephannie S. Gearhart.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in performance and early modern dramaPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]Copyright date: ©2018Description: [x], 180 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0367735008
  • 9780367735005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 822.309354 23
LOC classification:
  • PR3069.C555 G43 2020
Contents:
Introduction: historicizing generational conflict -- Youth. Blood v. manners: youth's quest for independence in The merchant of Venice -- Familial contracts: financial inheritance in the plays of Jonson and Middleton -- Elders. "The very latest counsel that ever I shall breathe": 2 Henry IV, Hamlet, and ideological inheritance -- Old fools and serpents' teeth: defining age and the terms of the parent-child relationship in King Lear -- Conclusion: a difficult age.
Summary: 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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Reprint. Originally published: 2018.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: historicizing generational conflict -- Youth. Blood v. manners: youth's quest for independence in The merchant of Venice -- Familial contracts: financial inheritance in the plays of Jonson and Middleton -- Elders. "The very latest counsel that ever I shall breathe": 2 Henry IV, Hamlet, and ideological inheritance -- Old fools and serpents' teeth: defining age and the terms of the parent-child relationship in King Lear -- Conclusion: a difficult age.

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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