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Author: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 3.796kg
ISBN: 9781137512512
ISBN 10: 1137512512
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 14 July 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“Performing Age makes significant contributions to theatre studies as well as aging studies by tracing the integral importance of age within a number of renowned plays in which it has to date been overlooked or disregarded. … This study breaks new ground for theatre studies and age studies in opening up both fields to new considerations … .” (Linda Heß, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 6 (02), November, 2018) “Lipscomb skilfully reconsiders the centrality of aging in the western canon from Thornton Wilder to Paula Vogel, theorizing the performativity of age through an analysis of both text and performance. … its breadth is impressive, offering a suitable primer for emerging and established scholars interested in age studies or a more general audience interested in considering the centrality of age in the modern western theatre's most celebrated dramas.” (Benjamin Gillespie, Modern Drama, Vol. 60 (3), 2017)
Performing Age makes significant contributions to theatre studies as well as aging studies by tracing the integral importance of age within a number of renowned plays in which it has to date been overlooked or disregarded. ... This study breaks new ground for theatre studies and age studies in opening up both fields to new considerations ... . (Linda Hess, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 6 (02), November, 2018) Lipscomb skilfully reconsiders the centrality of aging in the western canon from Thornton Wilder to Paula Vogel, theorizing the performativity of age through an analysis of both text and performance. ... its breadth is impressive, offering a suitable primer for emerging and established scholars interested in age studies or a more general audience interested in considering the centrality of age in the modern western theatre's most celebrated dramas. (Benjamin Gillespie, Modern Drama, Vol. 60 (3), 2017)
Lipscomb skilfully reconsiders the centrality of aging in the western canon from Thornton Wilder to Paula Vogel, theorizing the performativity of age through an analysis of both text and performance. ... its breadth is impressive, offering a suitable primer for emerging and established scholars interested in age studies or a more general audience interested in considering the centrality of age in the modern western theatre's most celebrated dramas. (Benjamin Gillespie, Modern Drama, Vol. 60 (3), 2017)
Author Information
Valerie Barnes Lipscomb is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, USA. She serves on the executive committees of the North American Network in Aging Studies and the Modern Language Association Age Studies Forum. She co-edited Staging Age (2010) and has published in such journals as Comparative Drama, Journal of Ageing and Later Life, and Age, Culture, Humanities.
