Introduction: historicizing generational conflict
Youth. Blood vs. manners: youth's quest for independence in The merchant of Venice
Familial contracts: financial inheritance in the plays of Jonson and Middleton
Elders. The very latest counsel that ever I shall breathe: 2 Henry IV, Hamlet, and ideological inheritance
Old fools and serpents' teeth: defining age and the terms of the parent-child relationship in King Lear
Conclusion: a difficult age.