Contracts of love and affection: Lear, old age, and kingship

Shakespeare Survey

Volumn , Issue 55, 2002, Pages 36-42

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EID: 67649308708     PISSN: 00809152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1017/ccol0521815878.003     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. 1.1.38 (Q and F). Citations are from King Lear: A Parallel Text Edition, ed. René Weis (London, 1993)
2. On the relationship to Shakespeare's will, see Samuel Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (Oxford, 1975). p. 246
3. Descriptions of some are given by Pat Thine, Old Age in English History (Oxford, 2000), pp. 75-81
4. See also Shulamith Shahar, Growing Old in the Middle Ages, trans. Yael Lotan (London, 1997), pp. 154-7
5. Margaret Spufford, Contrasting Communities: English Villagers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2nd edn, Stroud, 2000), p. 162
6. and Keith Thomas, 'Age and Authority in Early Modern England', Proceedings of the British Academy, 62 (1976), 236-7
7. On the underrated but pervasive influence of manorial courts in everyday life, see Christopher Harrison, 'Manor Courts and the Governance of Tudor England', in Communities and Courts in Britain 1150-1900, ed. Christopher Brooks and Michael Lobban (London, 1997), pp. 43-59
8. Paul Slack, Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 1988), pp. 84-5
9. J. H. Baker, 'Origins of the "Doctrine" of Consideration, 1535-1585', in The Legal Profession and the Common Law (London, 1986), pp. 369-91
10. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History, (3rd edn, London, 1990), pp. 387-8
11. S. J. Stoljar, A History of Contract at Common Law (Canberra, 1975), pp. 33-68
12. Women and Property in Early Modern England (London, 1993), p. 78
13. Marcel Mauss, The Gift, trans. Ian Cunnison (London, 1954)
14. Marshall Sahlins, Stone Age Economics (Chicago, 1972)
15. Pierre Bourdieu, The Logic of Practice, trans. Richard Nice (Stanford, 1990)
16. The parallel with Seneca (and the critique in Timon) is discussed by John M. Wallace, 'Timon of Athens and the Three Graces: Shakespeare's Senecan Study', Modern Philology, 83 (1986), 349-63
17. David Bevington and David L. Smith, 'James I and Timon of Athens', Comparative Drama, 33 (1999), 56-87
18. The Economy of Obligation (Basingstoke, 1998)
19. The Common Peace (Cambridge, 1987)