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Author Mangan, Michael, 1953- author.

Title Staging ageing : theatre, performance and the narrative of decline / Michael Mangan
Published Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 276 pages)
Series Theatre & Consciousness, 1753-3058
Theatre and consciousness.
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
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
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Subject Age in the performing arts.
Dramatic criticism.
Drama.
Narrative medicine.
Civilization.
Medicine in literature.
Aging -- ethnology
Drama
Narration
Aged -- psychology
Civilization
Medicine in Literature
plays (performing arts compositions)
civilization.
drama (literary genre)
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
DRAMA / General
Narrative medicine
Medicine in literature
Drama
Civilization
Age in the performing arts
Dramatic criticism
Genre/Form Theater reviews
Theater reviews.
Comptes rendus de théâtre.
Form Electronic book
Author Sarlos, Stephanie
Goldingay, Sarah
Mitchell, Jessica
ISBN 9781783201372
1783201371
9781783201389
178320138X
Other Titles Staging aging