Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage /: comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony Ellis.
• Other Names: (Professor of English), Ellis, Anthony
• Contents: Contents: Introduction; '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 Venice, and the challenge of the gerontocratic ideal; 'Caso unico nel mondo delle Maschere' the comic mutations of the Pantalone mask in Flaminio Scala's Commedia dell' Arte scenarios; Jonson's Alchemist and Dekker's Old Fortunatus: magic, mortality and the debasement of (the golden) age; Old age and the Utopian project: The Tempest and The Old Law; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (202 pages)
• Subjects: 822.30935246; Aging in literature; Old age in literature; English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 -- History and criticism; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; English drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; English drama -- Italian influences; Italian drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism; Italian drama -- To 1700 -- History and criticism; Aging -- Public opinion -- History -- 16th century; Aging -- Public opinion -- History -- 17th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351914024; 1351914022
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.