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

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-09411-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gearhart, Stephannie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

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

Über Autor(innen)

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