LEADER 03513nam 22007095 450 001 9910255252203321 005 20230810143421.0 010 $a9781137501691 010 $a1137501693 024 7 $a10.1057/978-1-137-50169-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000750378 035 $a(EBL)4716533 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-50169-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4716533 035 $a(Perlego)3487129 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000750378 100 $a20160714d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming Age in Modern Drama /$fby Valerie Barnes Lipscomb 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (207 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781137512512 311 08$a1137512512 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPerforming arts 606 $aTheater 606 $aArts 606 $aSociology 606 $aSocial groups 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aTheatre and Performance Arts 606 $aArts 606 $aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 615 0$aPerforming arts. 615 0$aTheater. 615 0$aArts. 615 0$aSociology. 615 0$aSocial groups. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aTheatre and Performance Arts. 615 24$aArts. 615 24$aSociology of Family, Youth and Aging. 615 24$aCultural Studies. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a792 700 $aLipscomb$b Valerie Barnes$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01062360 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255252203321 996 $aPerforming Age in Modern Drama$92525068 997 $aUNINA