Drama and the politics of generational conflict in Shakespeare's England

Even a cursory glance at early modern drama reveals that it was fascinated by the issue of fraught intergenerational relations.

Why, though, was elder-youth conflict the subject of so many of the period's plays, and what were the 'real life' ramifications of dramatizing generational conflict on the early modern stage?

This title examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England.