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Old age, masculinity, and early modern drama : comic elders on the Italian and Shakespearean stage / Anthony Ellis.
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Author
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Date published
2009
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Publisher
Farnham : Ashgate, c2009.
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Subject
English drama Italian influences
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism
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Accession number
83438793
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Class
81/ELL
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ISBN
9780754665786 (hbk.), 075466578X (hbk.)
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Language
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Physical description
190 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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General note: Includes essays on senescence and melancholy in Shakespeare's England and King Lear, old age and the uses of comedy in Bibbiena's Calandra and Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor, and old age and Utopia in The tempest and The old law. UK-SuSCL Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary, etc: This study tracing the evolution of the comic old man in Italian and English Renaissance comedy shows how English dramatists adopted and reimagined an Italian model to reflect native concerns about and attitudes toward growing old.