Jacqueline Vanhoutte is a professor of English and
University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of
North Texas. She is the author of Strange Communion: Motherland and
Masculinity in Tudor Plays, Pamphlets, and Politics and coauthor,
with Laurel Amtower, of A Companion to Chaucer and His
Contemporaries.
“This compelling book deftly integrates issues of gender, age,
history, and politics in its bold reevaluation of the Shakespeare
canon. Vanhoutte’s argument insightfully qualifies, and sometimes
overturns, new historicist paradigms of Elizabethan sexuality—both
generally and literally defined.”—Douglas Bruster, Mody C.
Boatright Regents Professor of American and English Literature,
Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at
Austin
“In this stunning appraisal of sexual senescence in Shakespeare’s
plays, Jacqueline Vanhoutte shines a light on a figure who’s been
hiding in plain sight: the aging male lover. Far from risible
roués, characters such as Falstaff and Antony embody the
politically potent but sexually quiescent men who hovered around
Elizabeth in her final years. Beautifully written and hugely
original, Age in Love pulls off that rarest of acts: adding a
dimension to the highly defined profiles of some of Shakespeare’s
best-known characters.”—Paul Menzer, professor and director of the
Shakespeare and Performance graduate program at Mary Baldwin
University
“In clear and elegant prose this book builds a persuasive case
for Shakespeare’s plays as deeply engaged with court history.
Exposing the limits of New Historicist analysis, [it] offers a
brilliant and groundbreaking methodology for producing historically
informed literary analysis.”—Catherine Loomis, author of The Death
of Elizabeth I: Remembering and Reconstructing the Virgin Queen
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