Introduction: historicizing generational conflict -- Youth. Blood v. manners: youth's quest for independence in The merchant of Venice -- Familial contracts: financial inheritance in the plays of Jonson and Middleton -- Elders. "The very latest counsel that ever I shall breathe": 2 Henry IV, Hamlet, and ideological inheritance -- Old fools and serpents' teeth: defining age and the terms of the parent-child relationship in King Lear -- Conclusion: a difficult age.
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