03513nam 22007095 450 991025525220332120230810143421.09781137501691113750169310.1057/978-1-137-50169-1(CKB)3710000000750378(EBL)4716533(DE-He213)978-1-137-50169-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4716533(Perlego)3487129(EXLCZ)99371000000075037820160714d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPerforming Age in Modern Drama /by Valerie Barnes Lipscomb1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (207 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781137512512 1137512512 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- 1. Classics of Modern Drama -- 2. Contemporary Memory Plays -- 3. Contemporary Memory Plays II -- 4. The Continuum of Age -- 5. The Fullness of Self -- Bibliography.This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions and senior-theatre groups. Act your age. This common admonition provides the springboard for this study, which rests on the premise that age is performative in nature, and that issues of age and performance crystallize in the theatre. Dramatic conventions include characters who change ages from one moment to the next, overtly demonstrating on stage the reiterated actions that create a performative illusion of stable age. Moreover, directors regularly cast actors in these plays against their chronological ages. Lipscomb contends that while the plays reflect varying attitudes toward performing age, as a whole they reveal a longing for an ageless self, a desire to present a consistent, unified identity. The works mirror prevailing social perceptions of the aging process as well as the tension between chronological age, physiological age, and cultural constructions of age.Performing artsTheaterArtsSociologySocial groupsCultureStudy and teachingLiterature, Modern20th centuryTheatre and Performance ArtsArtsSociology of Family, Youth and AgingCultural StudiesTwentieth-Century LiteraturePerforming arts.Theater.Arts.Sociology.Social groups.CultureStudy and teaching.Literature, ModernTheatre and Performance Arts.Arts.Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.Cultural Studies.Twentieth-Century Literature.792Lipscomb Valerie Barnesauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1062360BOOK9910255252203321Performing Age in Modern Drama2525068UNINA