The Politics of Old Age in Shakespeare's King Lear.

The notion of an archetypal struggle between "the young" and "the old" has dominated the critical discussion of Lear's age in Shakespeare's tragedy. This essay argues instead that such trans-historical binary constructions have obscured how King Lear presents Lear's age as a contested space subject...

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Publicado en:	Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 1 - 29
Autor principal:	HARKINS, MATTHEW
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Pennsylvania Press Winter2018
Materias:	Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Lear, King of England (Legendary character) Power (Social sciences) Cultural identity Social conflict
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