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By analyzing a highly diverse set of works-from Johann Christoph Gottsched to Voltaire to Joanna Baillie-with a rare pan-European scope, the contributors excavate the dynamic, and indeed paradoxical, entanglement of antiquity and modernity encapsulated by Enlightenment tragedy.Ĭontributors: Joshua Billings, Logan J. In Shadows of the Enlightenment, an assemblage of respected experts specializing in classical, eighteenth-century, comparative, and modernist literary traditions offer a corrective analysis, proving that the Enlightenment was a critical period for tragic drama, during which the signature classical influences of the era coexisted with an emerging modern identity. Moreover, tragedy in the Enlightenment is also often overlooked in favor of its illustrious seventeenth-century predecessors. The eighteenth century is famous for its celebration and deployment of ideals such as optimism, reason, and human progress-ideals seemingly contradicted by the pessimism and passion of much classical tragedy. To refer to Enlightenment tragedy is to teeter on the brink of paradox. Their multilingual scope and careful tracking of the genre’s transition from grand-siècle tragedy to romantic and modernist drama will make this book an invaluable resource for scholars across literary fields.” -Pannill Camp, author of The First Frame: Theatre Space in Enlightenment France

These are available to married couples after one person dies.“The approach the contributors to this collection take to Enlightenment tragedy is, in a word, expansive. Not popular and Parliament feared him because of his absolutism. Catholic leader and believed in absolute monarchy. You could doom your spouse to lower survivor benefitsįinally, claiming at 62 could result in reduced survivor benefits for your partner. A bloodless revolt in England against Catholic King James II that led to his overthrow and the appointment of Protestant daughter Mary to the throne. While you eventually are credited back the benefits you didn't get and your monthly payment is increased, it can take a long time for you to make up for the payments missed due to working. Since claiming Social Security at 62 could restrict your ability to work for the next several years without jeopardizing benefit checks, there may be little reason to start getting payments so early only to lose a chunk of them anyway.

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Until you actually reach your full retirement age, you'd also lose $1 in benefits for every $3 above a much higher threshold ($51,960 in 2022). If you continue working in the year you'll reach FRA, the rules are a bit different. This rule will apply until the year when you reach full retirement age, although the threshold at which you begin losing benefits increases annually due to wage growth. As a result, your Social Security benefits are reduced by $1 for every $2 in income earned above $19,560 in 2022. When you work at 62 while collecting benefits, you won't hit FRA at any point during the year. That's because earning a paycheck before full retirement age could cause you to forfeit some or all of the Social Security payments you are receiving. If you're one of them, it may not make sense to start checks at 62. Some people want to continue working at least part time in retirement. You won't be able to work without affecting benefits That's a huge decease in benefits and it could mean your Social Security doesn't stretch very far.Ģ. The ultimate reduction to your check is 30%, which means for each $100 you'd have received at full retirement age, you will end up with only $70 of it. If you start checks at 62 instead of an FRA of 67, 60 months of early filing penalties apply. And for any month before then, an additional reduction of 5/12 of 1% is applied. For each of the first 36 months before FRA, the penalties reduce your check by 5/9 of 1%. The early filing penalties apply on a monthly basis. The standard benefit you're entitled to equals a percentage of average wages, and the reduction to it can be pretty big if you file for benefits at 62 instead of waiting. If you start checks ahead of that time - which is the case if they begin at 62 - you get hit with an early filing penalty that reduces your standard benefit. Depending when you were born, your FRA could be between 66 and four months, and 67. The Social Security Administration has designated a full retirement age for everyone who is entitled to benefits. If you start getting Social Security benefits at 62, you're claiming them very early. Your benefit will be much smaller than it could be if you don't delay