Erin Campbell is Assistant Professor at the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, Canada.

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• Contents: Introduction. Part I Appropriating the Ancients and Representing the Aged: Medical representations of old age and the influence of non-medical texts, Daniel Schäfer; Time's whirligig: images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Newton, Nina Taunton; Youth, old age, and male self-fashioning: the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons', Stella Achilleos. Part II Aging at Court: The problem of old age in The Book of the Courtier, Maria Teresa Ricci; Aging the Lover: The lyrics of George Gascoigne's Posies, Kevin P. Laam. Part III The Aging Self: 'Should I as yet call you old?' Testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England, Aki C.L. Beam; Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works, Zbynek Smetana. Part IV Power, Fragility, and Anxiety: Visible signs of aging: images of old women in Renaissance Venice, Mary E. Frank; 'Unenduring' beauty: gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics, Erin J. Campbell; Cosimo's black widow, Allison Levy; Sans wife: sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare's plays, Philip D. Collington. Selected bibliography; Index.

Erin Campbell is Assistant Professor at the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, Canada.

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• Contents: Introduction. Part I Appropriating the Ancients and Representing the Aged: Medical representations of old age and the influence of non-medical texts, Daniel Schäfer; Time's whirligig: images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Newton, Nina Taunton; Youth, old age, and male self-fashioning: the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons', Stella Achilleos. Part II Aging at Court: The problem of old age in The Book of the Courtier, Maria Teresa Ricci; Aging the Lover: The lyrics of George Gascoigne's Posies, Kevin P. Laam. Part III The Aging Self: 'Should I as yet call you old?' Testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England, Aki C.L. Beam; Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works, Zbynek Smetana. Part IV Power, Fragility, and Anxiety: Visible signs of aging: images of old women in Renaissance Venice, Mary E. Frank; 'Unenduring' beauty: gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics, Erin J. Campbell; Cosimo's black widow, Allison Levy; Sans wife: sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare's plays, Philip D. Collington. Selected bibliography; Index.

Erin Campbell is Assistant Professor at the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, Canada.

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• Contents: Introduction. Part I Appropriating the Ancients and Representing the Aged: Medical representations of old age and the influence of non-medical texts, Daniel Schäfer; Time's whirligig: images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Newton, Nina Taunton; Youth, old age, and male self-fashioning: the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons', Stella Achilleos. Part II Aging at Court: The problem of old age in The Book of the Courtier, Maria Teresa Ricci; Aging the Lover: The lyrics of George Gascoigne's Posies, Kevin P. Laam. Part III The Aging Self: 'Should I as yet call you old?' Testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England, Aki C.L. Beam; Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works, Zbynek Smetana. Part IV Power, Fragility, and Anxiety: Visible signs of aging: images of old women in Renaissance Venice, Mary E. Frank; 'Unenduring' beauty: gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics, Erin J. Campbell; Cosimo's black widow, Allison Levy; Sans wife: sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare's plays, Philip D. Collington. Selected bibliography; Index.