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Autore |
Ellis Anthony |
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Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage / / Anthony Ellis |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-91402-2 |
1-138-26199-8 |
1-315-24776-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations, tables |
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Collana |
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Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aging in literature |
Old age in literature |
English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism |
English drama - 17th century - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. "All the world is of this humor" : senescence and melancholy in Shakespeare's England and the case of King Lear -- 2. Old age and the uses of comedy : Bibbiena's Calandra and Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor -- 3. Comedy and Florentine politics : the problem of generations -- 4. Andrea Calmo, Renaissance Venice, and the challenge of the gerontocratic ideal -- 5. "Caso unico nel mondo delle Maschere" : the comic mutations of the pantalone mask in Flaminio Scala's Commedia dell' Arte scenarios -- 6. Jonson's Alchemist and Dekker's Old fortunatus : magic, mortality, and the debasement of (the Golden) Age -- 7. Old age and the utopian project : The tempest and The old law. |
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