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Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is how the queen describes herself in Antony and Cleopatra , and at the end of King Lear , there is a tragic sense that both the king and Gloucester have acquired a wisdom they otherwise lacked at the beginning of the play. Even Juliet matures considerably before she drinks Friar Lawrence's potion, and Macbeth and his wife prematurely grow old from their murderous schemes. Drawing on historical documents and the dramatist's own complex depictions, Maurice Charney conducts an original investigation into patterns of aging in Shakespeare, exploring the fulfillment or distress of Shakespeare's characters in combination with their mental and physical decline. Comparing the characterizations of elderly kings and queens, older lovers, patriarchal men, matriarchal women, and the senexthe stereotypical old man of Roman comedywith the history of life expectancy in Shakespeare's England, Charney uncovers similarities and differences between our

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Author

Maurice Charney; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613791429

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism