TY  - BOOK
AU  - Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon
PY  - 2019
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781788745758
TI  - 'And Yet I Remember'
T2  - Ageing and Old(er) Age in English Drama between 1660 and the 1750s
DO  - 10.3726/b14413
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057346
N2  - «And Yet I Remember» explores representations of ageing and old age in English drama from 1660 to the 1750s. Within these approximately ninety years, England witnessed significant developments in medicine and the advent of sentimental philosophy, which began to transform attitudes toward old age and ageing. This study discusses the enduring cultural and literary stereotyping of old(er) people in culture and drama of this period. The chapters are organised around the stereotypes that kept reappearing in cultural, medical and religious narratives on old age, namely the desiring old man (senex amans) and woman (the «lusty old widow») and the nostalgic and wise elder. Exploring many diverse storylines between 1660 and the 1750s that treat old age and present old(er) characters, the analyses in this study further show how the choice of genre, personal experiences and attitudes of the playwright, and political and cultural revolutions affected the representation of older people.
KW  - Ageing and Old(er) Age in English Drama between 1660 and the 1750s, English drama, ‘And yet I remember’, literary gerontology, old age
LA  - English
ER  -