Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Nina Taunton is Senior Lecturer in English at Brunel University. She is author of 1590s Drama and Militarism: Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's Henry V and coeditor with Darryll Grantley of The Body in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Whirligig of TimeChapter One: Commonplaces and Stereotypes(Comedy of Errors, Dialogue of Comfort)Chapter Two: Old and Young(The Merchant of Venice, The Old Law, King Lear) Chapter Three: Disgraceful Old Age (1): men behaving badly(King Lear, The Old Law, The Broken Heart)Chapter Four: Disgraceful Old Age (2): women behaving worse(The Witch, the Witch of Edmonton, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon)Chapter Five: Politics and the Workplace(The Courtier, The Old Law, Coriolanus)Epilogue: All’s Well that Ends WellNotesBibliographyIndex