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Offering an exploration of the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period, this book draws upon both factual and literary material from a range of genres.

Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a consideration of the representation of gendered bodies in later literature.

Starting with the female body of late medieval literature, this text moves on to consider the representation of gendered bodies in later writing. The essays in the book intend to show how late medieval and early modern narratives function to produce specialized and discrete languages of the body.

A discussion of war and militarism in the drama of the 1590s. It demonstrates that plays about war and the "art of war" literature proliferating in the 1590s intervene in the military realities of the last few years of Elizabeth's reign much more closely than is appreciated.

Exploring the issues and circumstances at work in representations of old age in the early modern period, this title deals with both factual and literary material drawn from a range of genres as a means of rounding out the experience of growing old.