Age in Love

by Jacqueline Vanhoutte

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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

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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)