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1 Online-Ressource (ix, 177 pages)
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Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231520891
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9780231142304
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9780231520898
Inhalt:
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 pre
Inhalt:
King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline -- The process of growing old, especially in Macbeth -- Time the destroyer -- "Heavy" fathers -- Politic old men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius -- Wise old men -- Falstaff -- Othello and Leontes -- Old warriors and statesmen in the English history plays -- Fatal attraction: Antony and Cleopatra -- Strong older women -- Older loving women -- Lusty older women
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-172) and index
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In English
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ISBN 9780231142304
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Charney, Maurice Wrinkled deep in time New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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Charney, Maurice 1929-
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