Format:
ix, 202 Seiten
ISBN:
9781137512512
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1137512512
Content:
This 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
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes, 1960 - Performing age in modern drama New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 ISBN 9781137501691
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Drama
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Geschichte 1900-2015
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