Valerie Barnes Lipscomb

Performing Age in Modern Drama (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137501691
• Artikelnr.: 46898120

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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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.

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"Performing Age makes significant contributions to theatre studies as well as aging studies by tracing the integral importance of age within a number of renowned plays in which it has to date been overlooked or disregarded. ... This study breaks new ground for theatre studies and age studies in opening up both fields to new considerations ... ." (Linda Heß, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 6 (02), November, 2018)

"Lipscomb skilfully reconsiders the centrality of aging in the western canon from Thornton Wilder to Paula Vogel, theorizing the performativity of age through an analysis of both text and performance. ... its breadth is impressive, offering a suitable primer for emerging and established scholars interested in age studies or a more general audience interested in considering the centrality of age in the modern western theatre's most celebrated dramas." (Benjamin Gillespie, Modern Drama, Vol. 60 (3), 2017)