Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare

Maurice Charney

November, 2009
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14230-4
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Introduction

1. King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline

2. The Aging Process, with Special Reference to Macbeth

3. Time the Destroyer in the Sonnets and The Rape of Lucrece

4. “Heavy” Fathers

5. Politic Old Men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius

6. Wise Old Men

7. Falstaff

8. Jealous Old Men: Othello and Leontes

9. Old Warriors and Statesmen in the English History Plays

10. Fatal Attraction: Antony and Cleopatra

11. Powerful Older Women

12. Loving Older Women

13. Lusty Older Women

Conclusion

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Drama
• European and British Literature
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Maurice Charney is Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University and past president of the Shakespeare Association of America. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Columbia University Press's All of Shakespeare and Shakespeare on Love and Lust.

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