Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare s - Englan

Informationen zum Autor Stephannie S. Gearhart is an Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University, USA. Klappentext This book examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in Early Modern England. Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: Stephannie Gearhart
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138094116
• ISBN: 978-1-138-09411-6
• No. of pages: 180
• Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; England, English, DRAMA / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Performance Art, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600