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Paperback Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage Book

ISBN: 1138261998

ISBN13: 9781138261990

Old Age, Masculinity, and Early Modern Drama: Comic Elders on the Italian and Shakespearean Stage

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This first book-length study to trace 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. Anthony Ellis provides an in-depth study of the comic old man in the erudite comedy of sixteenth-century Florence; the character's parallel development in early modern Venice, including the commedia dell'arte;...

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