Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage /...
Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage /...
Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage / Anthony Ellis.
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Publisher
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
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N822.30935/12
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Language
English
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Physical content
190 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
'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 Ve...
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Publisher
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2009.
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Summary
"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-c...
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Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage / Anthony Ellis.
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Anglo-Italian Renaissance studies series.
Includes bibliographical references ([171]-184) and index.
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c2009.
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N822.30935/12
Record Identifier
74VvqZyoyEPd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvqZyoyEPd
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ISBN
075466578X (alk. paper)
9780754665786 (alk. paper)
DDC
822.309354
MMS ID
991006095029702626
