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245 10 a| Performing age in modern dramah| [electronic resource] /c| Valerie Barnes Lipscomb.;

260 a| New York :b| Palgrave Macmillan,c| [2016];

300 a| ix, 202 pages ;c| 22 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction -- 1. Classics of Modern Drama -- 2. Contemporary Memory Plays -- 3. Contemporary Memory Plays II -- 4. The Continuum of Age -- 5. The Fullness of Self -- Bibliography.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions and senior-theatre groups. Act your age. This common admonition provides the springboard for this study, which rests on the premise that age is performative in nature, and that issues of age and performance crystallize in the theatre. Dramatic conventions include characters who change ages from one moment to the next, overtly demonstrating on stage the reiterated actions that create a performative illusion of stable age. Moreover, directors regularly cast actors in these plays against their chronological ages. Lipscomb contends that while the plays reflect varying attitudes toward performing age, as a whole they reveal a longing for an ageless self, a desire to present a consistent, unified identity. The works mirror prevailing social perceptions of the aging process as well as the tension between chronological age, physiological age, and cultural constructions of age.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

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Performing age in modern drama / Valerie Barnes Lipscomb.

Author/creator	Lipscomb, Valerie Barnes, 1960-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Description	ix, 202 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Age in the performing arts. Aging.

Contents	Introduction -- 1. Classics of Modern Drama -- 2. Contemporary Memory Plays -- 3. Contemporary Memory Plays II -- 4. The Continuum of Age -- 5. The Fullness of Self -- Bibliography.
Abstract	This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage, including professional productions and senior-theatre groups. Act your age. This common admonition provides the springboard for this study, which rests on the premise that age is performative in nature, and that issues of age and performance crystallize in the theatre. Dramatic conventions include characters who change ages from one moment to the next, overtly demonstrating on stage the reiterated actions that create a performative illusion of stable age. Moreover, directors regularly cast actors in these plays against their chronological ages. Lipscomb contends that while the plays reflect varying attitudes toward performing age, as a whole they reveal a longing for an ageless self, a desire to present a consistent, unified identity. The works mirror prevailing social perceptions of the aging process as well as the tension between chronological age, physiological age, and cultural constructions of age.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-196) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016936677
ISBN	9781137512512 (hardbound : acid-free paper)
ISBN	1137512512 (hardbound : acid-free paper)
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