Description |
1 online resource (vi, 276 pages) |
Series |
Theatre & Consciousness, 1753-3058 |
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Theatre and consciousness.
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Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Mind, Body and Ageing in Drama, Theatre and Performance -- Part I: Frames and Contexts -- Chapter 1: On Gerontology -- Chapter 2: On Age, Stage and Consciousness -- Part II: Tragedy and Comedy -- Chapter 3: On Liminality and Late Style: Oedipus at Colonus -- Chapter 4: On Negative Stereotypes in Classical and Medieval Drama -- Chapter 5: On Sex and the Senex: English Restoration Comedy -- Chapter 6: On Dirty Old Men and Trickster Figures -- Part III: Memories |
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Chapter 7: On Memory and Its ModesChapter 8: On Reminiscence, Interaction and Intervention -- Part IV: The Value(s) of Old Age -- Chapter 9: On Longevity -- Chapter 10: On Institutions -- Chapter 11: On Song and Dance -- Epilogue: The Amazing One-Hundred-and-Sixty-One-Year-Old Woman -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
Summary |
"How can plays and performances, past and present, inform our understanding of aging? Drawing primarily on the Western dramatic canon, on contemporary British theater, on popular culture, and on paratheatrical practices, this book investigates theatrical engagement with aging from the Greek chorus to Reminiscence Theater. It also explores the relationship of the plays, performances, and practices to the material, social, and ideological conditions that produced them. A foundational work on the cultural past and present of aging, the book will find ... audiences not only among scholars but also among theater and health care professionals."--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-258) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Age in the performing arts.
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Dramatic criticism.
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Drama.
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Narrative medicine.
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Civilization.
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Medicine in literature.
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Aging -- ethnology
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Drama
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Narration
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Aged -- psychology
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Civilization
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Medicine in Literature
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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civilization.
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drama (literary genre)
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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DRAMA / General
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Narrative medicine
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Medicine in literature
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Drama
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Civilization
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Age in the performing arts
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Dramatic criticism
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Genre/Form |
Theater reviews
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Theater reviews.
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Comptes rendus de théâtre.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Sarlos, Stephanie
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Goldingay, Sarah
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Mitchell, Jessica
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ISBN |
9781783201372 |
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1783201371 |
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9781783201389 |
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178320138X |
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