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Autore: | Ellis Anthony |
Titolo: | Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage / / Anthony Ellis |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (203 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina: | 822/.309354 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Note generali: | First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Old age, masculinity and early modern drama |
ISBN: | 1-351-91402-2 |
1-138-26199-8 | |
1-315-24776-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154607803321 |
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