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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.
The common admonition "act your age" 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.
Pages
202 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2016-07-14
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137512512
EAN PDF
9781137501691
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
20
Taille du fichier
1597 Ko
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52,74 €
EAN EPUB
9781137501691
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
20
Taille du fichier
358 Ko
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Prix
52,74 €

Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA.  She serves on the executive committees of the North American Network in Aging Studies and the Modern Language Association Age Studies Forum. She co-edited Staging Age (2010) and has published in such journals as Comparative Drama, Journal of Ageing and Later Life, and Age, Culture, Humanities.

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