Constituting old age in early modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear /
Martin, Christopher,1957-
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Age, agency, and early modern constitutions -- Elizabeth I's politics of longevity -- Out to pasture: the bucolic elder in Spenser, Sidney, and their heirs -- Gerontophobia and late Elizabethan poetry: "old strange thinges" -- "Confin'd to exhibition": King Lear through the spectacles of age -- Epilogue: figures of retire.
English literature
Old age in literature.
Aging in literature.
Intergenerational relations in literature.