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

Folger bibliographic ID: 354391
Folger call number: PR3069.C555 G43 2018
Folger holdings ID: 502619

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Conflict of generations in literature Youth in literature Old age in literature

author: Gearhart, Stephannie S.
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616