Anthony Ellis

Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama

Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

As it considers early modern medical theories, sexual myths, and intergenerational conflicts, this book traces the development of the comic old man character in Renaissance comedy, from his many incarnations in Venice and Florence to his popularity on the English stage. As Anthony Ellis shows how English dramatists adapted an Italian model to portray concerns about growing old, he sheds new light on early modern society's complex attitudes toward aging.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780754665786
• ISBN-10: 075466578X
• Artikelnr.: 31306443

Autorenporträt

Anthony Ellis is an associate professor of English at Western Michigan University, USA, where he teaches Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature. He serves as associate editor of the journal Comparative Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
'All the world is of this humor': senescence and melancholy in Shakespeare's England and the case of King Lear
Old age and the uses of comedy: Bibbiena's Calandra and Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor
Comedy and Florentine politics: the problem of generations
Andrea Calmo, Renaissance Venice, and the challenge of the gerontocratic ideal
'Caso unico nel mondo delle Maschere' the comic mutations of the Pantalone mask in Flaminio Scala's Commedia dell' Arte scenarios
Jonson's Alchemist and Dekker's Old Fortunatus: magic, mortality and the debasement of (the golden) age
Old age and the Utopian project: The Tempest and The Old Law
Bibliography
Index.