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Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama - Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,707
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Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama - Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage (Paperback): Anthony Ellis

Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama - Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage (Paperback)

Anthony Ellis

Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies

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This first book-length study to trace the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. Anthony Ellis provides an in-depth study of the comic old man in the erudite comedy of sixteenth-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, including the commedia dell'arte; and, along with a consideration of Anglo-Italian intertextuality, the character's subsequent flourishing on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. In outlining the character's development, Ellis identifies and describes the physical and behavioral characteristics of the comic old man and situates these traits within early modern society by considering prevailing medical theories, sexual myths, and intergenerational conflict over political and economic circumstances. The plays examined include Italian dramas by Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena, NiccolA(2) Machiavelli, Donato Giannotti, Lorenzino de' Medici, Andrea Calmo, and Flaminio Scala, and English works by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Dekker, along with Middleton, Rowley, and Heywood's The Old Law. Besides providing insight into stage representations of aging, this book illuminates how early modern people conceived of and responded to the experience of growing old and its social, economic, and physical challenges.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2009
Authors: Anthony Ellis
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-26199-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare plays, texts
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
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LSN: 1-138-26199-8
Barcode: 9781138261990

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