ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|63 pages
Youth
part II|66 pages
Elders
chapter 3|31 pages
“The very latest counsel that ever I shall breathe”
2 Henry IV, Hamlet, and ideological inheritance
chapter 4|29 pages
Old fools and serpents’ teeth
Defining age and the terms of the parent-child relationship in King Lear
