'Experienc'd age knows what for youth is fit'? : generational and familial conflict in British and Irish drama and teatre / edited by Katarzyna Bronk - Bacon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bronk-Bacon, Katarzyna, 1982- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conflict of generations in literature.

English drama--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English drama--Irish authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 342 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2019]

Summary:

"Over centuries drama developed to be an influential and imaginative medium for presenting, analysing and often offering ways of resolving real or fictional battles.'Experience'd Age knows what for Youth is fit'? offers academic and non-academic readers a very timely study of intergenerational conflicts and crises as seen through the eyes of male and female British and Irish playwrights from various centuries. This volume suggest that at the heart of intergenerational discord lie various crises between (the) age(d) and youth, or, more generally, the ideas of what is "old" and "new", and how they interact or co-exist in their em-bodied or symbolic/conceptual form. The collection is built around the words "age(d)/young", and they denote both the calendar/biological age of the characters - the agents or participants of conflict - as well as these words' more conceptual potential - new centuries, new generations, new theatres, new dramatic styles and their representations on stage and in print, and, whenever possible, the reception of such changes by the audiences. Thus, the authors within this collection of essays analyse the idea of intergenerationality within selected dramatic works but also as seen in clashes of cultures, artistic visions, concepts and aesthetic idea(l)s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: generations in conflict / Katarzyna Bronk

Fergus and the virgin: the York plays, spectators and intergenerational conflict / Jamie Beckett

"My father is deceas'd": kingship, patriarchy and intergenerational conflicts in Edward II by Christopher Marlowe / Nizar Zouidi

Of fathers and sons: intergenerational loyalties and conflict in Shakespeare's Elizabethan history plays / Murat Ögütcü

Once upon a time admired, now disregarded: inferring the paternal anguish of authority loss regarding old age in Shakespeare's tragedies / Özge Özkan-Gürcü

"The precepts of the old weigh nothing with you": intergenerational conflict in selected restoration and early eighteenth-century English comedies / Katarzyna Bronk

Remembering the duel: decoding the conscious lovers / Máire MacNeill

"Not of an age, but for all time": reflections of Shakespeare in Civil War Virginia / Jess Hamlet

The Anglo-Irish big house and war memories in three plays / Wei H. Kao

Female values and the masculinised 1930s in look back in anger / Takeshi Kawashima

Semi-patriographic and pathographic Beckett: the politics of son's writing father and family in endgame / Önder Çakırtaş

Old whining but a very new bottle: the war of the generations in Pinter's The caretaker / Christian Jimenez

Trans' generations in Caryl Churchill's Cloud nine / Lisa Siefker Bailey

To fit the part: the aged body in two plays by Enda Walsh / Deirdre O'Leary

"Your generation curse": Kwame Kwei-Armah's staging of West Indian fatherhood in Britain / Victoria Pettersen Lantz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781788741620

1788741625

OCLC:

1098228351

Publisher Number:

99985069076