SARA MUNSON DEATS is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of South Florida, and Co-director of the Center of Applied Humanities. She is also author of Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe (1997).LAGRETTA TALLENT LENKER is Director of the Division of Lifelong Learning and Co-director of the Center for Aplied Humanities and the Florida Center for Writers at the University of South Florida. She was co-editor with Joseph Moxley for The Politics of Scholarship, (Greenwood, 1995).

• Introduction by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent LenkerThe Aging Male in LiteratureThe Dialectic of Aging in Shakespeare's King Lear and The Tempest by Sara Munson DeatsShakespeare Teaching Geriatrics: Lear and Prospero as Case Studies in Aged Heterogeneity by Kirk Combe and Kenneth SchmaderWhy? versus Why Not? Potentialities of Aging in Shaw's Back to Methuselah by Lagretta Tallent LenkerHemingway's Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis by Phillip SipioraBertrand Russell in His Nineties: Aging and the Problem of Biography by William T. RossThe Aging Female in LiteratureWork, Contentment, and Identity in Aging Women in Literature by Rosalie Murphy BaumOld Maids and Old Mansions: The Barren Sisters of Hawthorne, Dickens, and Faulkner by Maryhelen C. HarmonThe Aging Artist: The Sad but Instructive Case of Virginia Woolf by Joanne Trautmann BanksAging in the CommunityThe Sacred Ghost: The Role of the Elder(ly) in Native American Literature by David ErbenAging and the African-American Community: The Case of Ernest J. Gaines by Charles J. Heglar and Annye L. RefoeAging and the Continental Community: Good Counsel in the Writings of Two Mature European Princesses, Marguerite de Navarre and Madame Palatine by Christine McCall ProbesAging and Academe: Caricature or Character by Helen Popovich and Deborah NoonanAging and the Public Schools: Visits of Charity-The Young Look at the Old by Ralph M. ClineAging in the Fine and Popular ArtsAging and Contemporary Art by Linnea S. DietrichThe Return Home: Affirmations of Aging and Transformations of Identity in Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful by Carol J. JablonskiAnimated Gerontophobia: Ageism, Sexism, and the Disney Villainess by Merry G. Perry8 1/2 and Me: The Thirty-Two Year Difference by Norman N. HollandBibliographyIndex