Age, agency, and early modern constitutions -- Elizabeth I's politics of longevity -- Out to pasture: the bucolic elder in Spenser, Sidney, and their heirs -- Gerontophobia and 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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