Staging ageing : theatre, performance and the narrative of decline / Michael Mangan.

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Mangan, Michael, 1953- [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781783201372
1783201371
9781783201389
178320138X

Other title:

Staging aging

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staging ageing : theatre, performance and the narrative of decline.DDC classification:

700.454 23

LOC classification:

PN1590.A34 .M364 2013eb

NLM classification:

2015 F-777
WT 100

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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""

""Chapter 7: On Memory and Its Modes""""Chapter 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.

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"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.