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Index
Page numbers refer to the print edition.
Page numbers in italics refer to figures.
Actaeon myth, 65–66, 70, 96, 98, 110, 113–14, 119, 131, 133, 190
Actes and Monuments (Foxe), 100
Adams, Simon, 47, 176, 210n15
Adelman, Janet, 160–61, 175, 181, 183, 200, 201, 206
Admonition to the Nobility and People of England and Ireland (Allen), 30, 35–38, 42–43, 46, 61, 63, 68, 73, 79–80, 132, 184
age-in-love trope: in Antony and Cleopatra, 162–63, 181, 183, 186–87, 192–94, 202, 206; definition of, 2; in Endymion, 35, 37, 56–57, 69, 74; in Merry Wives of Windsor, 2, 84, 110–17; in News from Heaven and Hell, 94; and performance, 1–5; and second reign of Elizabeth, 5; Shakespeare’s fascination with, 1–4, 12–22, 28–29; in Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence, 1–5, 154–58; in Twelfth Night, 20, 31, 125, 141–43, 151–53, 156; and vanity, 1, 5, 20, 57, 60, 71, 73, 97, 111, 141, 155–56; and wit, 11
Ajax. See A New Discourse on a Stale Subject, or the Metamorphosis of Ajax (Harington)
Alençon, Duke of, 41, 96
Allen, William, 73, 125, 161; Admonition to the Nobility, 30, 35–38, 42–43, 46, 61, 63, 68, 73, 79–80, 132, 184. See also A Briefe Discoverie of Dr. Allen’s Seditious Driftes
amans senex, 5, 9, 19–20, 30–31, 73, 95, 153, 164, 182. See also senex amans
androgyny, 2
anticourt polemics, 31, 71, 82, 96, 121, 125, 139, 159–64, 190, 202; as “slanderous devices,” 55, 93, 95, 114, 138; suppression of, 53–55. See also Admonition to the Nobility; Leicester’s Commonwealth
Anton, Robert, 201
Antonie and Cleopatra (Greville), 173–74, 196
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare): and age-in-love trope, 162–63, 181, 183, 186–87, 192–94, 202, 206; age of actor playing Antony in, 163, 203; and bearbaiting, 174, 183; and emotion, 165, 179–81, 188–90, 195–203; eulogies of Antony in, 199–200; and “great fairy,” 15, 178, 181, 202; judgment in, 185, 188–89; and Metamorphoses, 186, 191, 194; and news, 188, 190; and “Life of Marcus Antonius,” 31, 166–68, 171–72, 175–76, 180–82, 184, 187–88, 190–92; and royal favoritism, 164, 166–67, 173–74, 177, 180, 192, 194; and the theater, 167–68, 188–89, 190, 201–2
Arden, Alice, 58–59
Arnold, Janet, 40
Arraygnment of Paris (Peele), 130, 132
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 10, 16–17
Atwood, Margaret, 205
Auden, W. H., 110
Ave Caesar (Rowlands), 195
Bacon, Francis, 8, 42, 59–60, 63, 99, 131, 176, 191, 200, 206
Barber, C. L., 125, 140
Barkan, Leonard, 96, 99, 190
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 24
Barthomolaeus Anglicus, 19
Barton, Anne, 140, 194
Barton, John, 140
Bates, Catherine, 22, 175
bearbaiting, 4, 8; bandogs used for, 73; as contests of wit, 82, 84; Leicester’s event of, 51–52
bearbaiting trope, 27; in Antony and Cleopatra, 174, 183; and Falstaff, 100, 109–17; in Merry Wives of Windsor, 9, 31, 110–17; in News from Heaven and Hell, 91–93, 112; Shakespeare’s earliest reference to, 9; in Twelfth Night, 9, 123, 125–26, 135, 138–39, 143–51. See also Dudley bear and ragged staff
Berger, Harry, Jr., 82–83
Berry, Philippa, 38
Berry, Ralph, 139, 149, 151
Betts, Hannah, 34
Bevington, David, 25, 66, 71
Bishop’s Ban of 1599, 137
Blanchett, Cate, 39
The Blessedness of Brytaine or a Celebration of the Queen’s Holyday (Kyffin), 168–69
Blundeville, Thomas, 8, 11, 79
Bond, Sallie, 58
Bono, Barbara, 203
Book of the Courtier (Castiglione): ambiguous references to real persons in, 27; on derisive laughter, 11, 36, 48; on distinction between lust and love, 156; on old men in love, 3, 11, 17, 18, 36, 40, 85; on unbridled desire, 92; on wit and judgment, 82, 84
Boym, Svetlana, 125–26, 132, 152, 153, 166
Bradley, A. C., 193
Breitenberg, Mark, 19
Brennan, Liam, 141
A Briefe Discoverie of Dr. Allen’s Seditious Driftes, 80, 82, 100
Bruster, Douglas, 6, 10
Burbage, James, 12, 86
Burbage, Richard, 159, 162–63, 186–87, 200, 203, 208
Burghley, Lord (William Cecil), 3, 45–46, 48, 57, 217n6
Camden, William, 53, 80
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), 20, 71, 98
Carlson, Marvin, 28, 82, 122
Carroll, Tim, 141
Castiglione, Baldesar. See Book of the Courtier
castration, 73, 91, 93, 129, 184. See also emasculation
&n
bsp; Cather, Willa, 206
Catholics: dissidents, 36, 81; exiled, 9, 36, 38, 42, 83; and Leicester’s Commonwealth, 6, 35, 94
Cavendish, Margaret, 206
Cecil, William. See Burghley, Lord (William Cecil)
Chapman, George, 63
Charles I of England, 151
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 20, 71, 98
Chronicles (Holinshed), 87, 124
Cicero, 20, 34, 58, 73, 167, 182, 185; Cato Maior, 16; on “unadvised adolescencye,” 18, 134
Clapham, John, 42
class. See social class
Cleopatra (Daniel), 172
Clinton, Hillary, 3, 26, 208
Cobham affair, 100, 109
Collington, Philip, 16
Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), 26–27
costume and dress: age-expected norms of, 33, 135; and bodily composition, 134–35; changes in, 2, 73, 75, 134; expense of, 86; old clothing as, 86, 102; and “popular breeches,” 85, 102, 118; stockings as, 2, 134, 135, 245n65
cross-dressing, 2, 21, 36, 37, 73, 74, 113, 140, 160, 193
cuckoldry, 19–20. See also senex amans
Cymbeline (Shakespeare), 206
Cynthia’s Revels. See The Fountaine of Selfe-Love or Cynthia’s Revels (Jonson)
Daniel, Samuel, 172
Dash, Irene, 180
Davison, Francis, 46
“The Dead Man’s Right” (anon.), 87, 94
Deats, Sara, 36
de Certeau, Michel, 80, 117
defamation, 10, 53, 105. See also libel; slander
deformity: and aging males, 36, 64, 70, 142; and Antony, 186; and Elizabeth’s favorites, 36, 64; and Endymion, 36, 70; and Every Man Out of His Humour, 145, 151; laughter and ridicule at, 36, 70, 125, 134, 148; and love, 36; of texts, 128; and Twelfth Night, 125, 128, 134, 142, 150–51
Dekker, Thomas, 144
de Maisse, André Hurault, 37, 43–45, 177
democratization: and age-in-love figures, 12; and the public sphere, 12; and the theater, 10, 84
desire: and age, 1, 17–19, 35, 40, 71–72, 101, 106, 125, 154, 156; “Deep,” 34–35, 64, 93, 144, 175; and nostalgia, 200; and public duty, 178–79; and Sonnet 138, 1, 18; transgressive, 65; “unnatural,” 69
Devereux, Robert. See Essex, Earl of (Robert Devereux)