Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama: comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage

'All the world is of this humor': senescence and melancholy in Shakespeare's England and the case of King Lear

Old age and the uses of comedy: Bibbiena's Calandra and Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor

Comedy and Florentine politics: the problem of generations

Andrea Calmo, Renaissance Venice, and the challenge of the gerontocratic ideal

'Caso unico nel mondo delle Maschere' the comic mutations of the Pantalone mask in Flaminio Scala's Commedia dell' Arte scenarios

Jonson's Alchemist and Dekker's Old Fortunatus: magic, mortality and the debasement of (the golden) age

Old age and the Utopian project: The Tempest and The Old Law.