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Author:   Katarzyna Bronk
Publisher:   Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint:   Peter Lang Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781906165598

ISBN 10:   1906165599
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   24 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"CONTENTS: Katarzyna Bronk: Introduction: Autumnal Faces - Jim Casey: The Slippered Pantaloon: Manhood and Ageing in Shakespeare - Patrick Aaron Harris: Ageing and Paternal Relationships in William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV - Nizar Zouidi: The Real Age of the Fox: A Study in the Representation of Youth and Old Age in Volpone by Ben Jonson - Stella Achilleos: Old Age, Biopolitics and Utopia: Geronticide in Middleton, Rowley and Heywood's The Old Law - Katarzyna Bronk: Prudence, or the ""Sins"" of the Elderly in Restoration Comedies - James Evans: ""What a Nautious Thing is an Old Man Turn'd Lover"": Anthony Leigh Acting Age on Stage - Simon Bacon: The Great Deceiver: Vampires, Old Age and the Nineteenth-Century Stage - Brice Ezell: Shackles and Garlands: Age, Remembering and Narrative in Alan Bennett's Forty Years On and An Englishman Abroad - C. Austin Hill: The Storytellers: ""Stars"" and Seanchaithe of the Celtic Tiger - Jennifer Thomas: Transformation and Re-education through Ageing: Bryony Lavery's Origin of the Species and A Wedding Story - Sandie Byrne: Representations of Senescence in Tony Harrison's Black Daisies for the Bride - Laura Tommaso: Old Age and Motherhood in April De Angelis' After Electra."

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"Katarzyna Bronk is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the history of English literature but specializes in Restoration theatre and drama. She also researches and publishes on various British texts/manuals of conduct and the literary methods of socializing women of all ages and states. Currently, she is exploring the representations and dramatizations of ageing and old age, and her research on the matters of senescence, titled ""Embodied sites of memory? Investigations into the definitions and representations of old age and ageing in English drama between 1660 and 1750"", is supported by a grant from the Polish National Science Centre."

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