Age in Love: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court Contributor(s): Vanhoutte, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496207599 ISBN-13: 9781496207593 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Renaissance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Drama | Shakespeare |
Dewey: 822.33 |
LCCN: 2018051867 |
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" (1.36 lbs) 306 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare's sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, "vainly" performs the role of "some untutor'd youth." Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of "age in love" pervades Shakespeare's mature works, informing his experiments in all the dramatic genres. Bottom, Malvolio, Claudius, Falstaff, and Antony all share with the sonnet speaker a tendency to flout generational decorum by assuming the role of the lover, normally reserved in Renaissance culture for young men. Hybrids and upstarts, cross-dressers and shape-shifters, comic butts and tragic heroes--Shakespeare's old-men-in-love turn in boundary-blurring performances that probe the gendered and generational categories by which early modern subjects conceived of identity. |