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Performing Age in Modern Drama

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202 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Palgrave Macmillanerschienen am14.07.20161st ed. 2016
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.mehr
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KlappentextThis 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.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-137-51251-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum14.07.2016
Auflage1st ed. 2016
Seiten202 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht370 g
IllustrationenIX, 202 p.
Artikel-Nr.37346182

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.mehr
Kritik
"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)mehr

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Autor

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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