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Subject(s)

• English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]
• Old age in literature [Browse]
• Aging in literature [Browse]
• Intergenerational relations in literature [Browse]
• Old age—History [Browse]
• Shakespeare, William 1564-1616—Characters—Older people [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in Renaissance literature and culture ; 8 [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-204) and index.

Contents

• Prologue : the whirligig of time
• Commonplaces and stereotypes
• Old and young
• Disgraceful old age (1) : men behaving badly
• Disgraceful old age (2) : women behaving worse
• Politics and the workplace
• Epilogue : the triumph of age : All's well that ends well.

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ISBN

• 9780415324731 (alk. paper)
• 0415324734 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006037343

OCLC

76794713

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