Table of contents
Frontmatter
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
“You’ll Get Old Sitting There”: Contempt for Aged Males in Three “Shakespearean” Works by Edward Bond
Moving Back from the Limelight: Aging and Ageism as the Shakespearean Actor’s Tragedy in Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser
Beckett and the Representation of Age on Stage
Tom Murphy’s Bailegangaire: Transcending Despair in Old Age
Old Age and Aging: Presence and Absence in the Plays of Brian Friel
The Tyranny of the Old: Destructive Generational Relations in Brian Friel’s Lovers and Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Perspectives on Lifespan and Regeneration in the Plays of Conor McPherson
Aging and Death in Edward Albee’s The Sandbox and Tennessee Williams’s The Milktrain Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
“No Country for Old Men”: A Poignant Portrayal of Aging and Ageism in Arthur Miller’s Mr. Peters’ Connections
“No country, this, for old men”: A View of the Aging Artist through Intertexts in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
“Life Is a Terminal Illness”: The War against Time and Aging in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
“Who are you?” Notes on Aging and Dementia in Frank McGuinness’s The Visiting Hour (2020)
Notes on Contributors
Index
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PDF ISBN: 978-83-67405-42-3 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-3-11-136138-3 | Paperback ISBN: 978-83-67405-44-7 | DOI: 10.2478/9788367405423
Publisher: Sciendo
Copyright owner: © 2023 Sciendo
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 328