02484oam 2200541I 450 991015460780332120230808200628.01-351-91402-21-138-26199-81-315-24776-310.4324/9781315247762 (CKB)3710000000965683(MiAaPQ)EBC4758129(OCoLC)965542837(EXLCZ)99371000000096568320180706e20162009 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierOld age, masculinity, and early modern drama comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage /Anthony EllisLondon :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (203 pages) illustrations, tablesAnglo-Italian Renaissance StudiesFirst published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.0-7546-6578-X 1-351-91403-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.Aging in literatureOld age in literatureEnglish dramaEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600History and criticismEnglish drama17th centuryHistory and criticismAging in literature.Old age in literature.English dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.822/.309354Ellis Anthony.609861MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154607803321Old age, masculinity and early modern drama1114673UNINA