Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear / by Martin, Christopher, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Age, agency, and early modern constitutions -- Elizabeth I's politics of longevity -- Out to pasture : the bucolic elder in Spenser, Sidney, and their heirs -- Sexuality and senescence in late Elizabethan poetry : "old strange thinges" -- "Confin'd to exhibition" : King Lear through the spectacles of age -- Epilogue : figures of retire.…”
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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature / by Schwyzer, Philip

Table of Contents: “…Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.…”
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Shakespeare's early tragedies / by Brooke, Nicholas