Secondary Sources

Monuments and literary posterity in early modern drama / Brian Chalk

Constituting old age in Early Modern English literature, from Queen Elizabeth to King Lear / Christopher Martin

Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage / Anthony Ellis.

 

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