Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama: comic elders on the italian and shakespearean stage
Auteur :
Ellis, Anthony
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780754665786
Date de publication :
5 août 2009
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
544 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Shows how English dramatists adopted an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old. This book studies the comic old man in the erudite comedy of 16th-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, and the character's subsequent flourishing on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage.