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Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare
October, 2009
Cloth, 192 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14230-4
$29.50
/ £20.50
"Offers insights about Shakespeare’s attitude toward aging and his own growing old...highly recommended. " — Choice
"Rather than pursuing a single-minded but limited agenda, the purpose of this book is to inform readers with the richness of Shakespeare's drama, including a cornucopia of amusing, poignant, inspiring, and sad observations about what it means for all of us to grow older." — James P. Bednarz, author of Shakespeare and the Poets' War
"The many readers who justly admired and learned from Maurice Charney's previous book, All of Shakespeare, will find this volume a worthy successor on an important and underinvestigated subject. One comes away from Wrinkled Deep in Time with one's understanding quietly transformed." — Michael Goldman, Princeton University
"Wrinkled Deep in Time is a readable, sensitive, and often moving account of Shakespeare's treatment of aging. The reader has the pleasure of listening to the voice of a master teacher speaking about works he knows well and loves." — David Scott Kastan, Yale University
"Maurice Charney illuminates every Shakespearean topic to which he turns his attention. In this study, he deals with Shakespeare's varied portrayals of old age and the aging process, tracing the many losses and the few, though precious, gains that Shakespeare associated with getting old. The key is Charney's acute sensitivity to language and the shadings of meaning in Shakespeare's rich vocabulary. Proposing typologies that clarify the full range of what it meant, for Shakespeare, to grow old, Charney confirms the playwright's deep wisdom about the range of human experience." — Harry Keyishian, Fairleigh Dickinson University