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

Tadelloses, sauberes Exemplar. Over the centuries, drama has been an influential and imaginative medium for presenting, analysing and offering ways of resolving real or fictional battles. This volume provides readers with a timely study of inter-generational conflicts and crises as seen through the eyes of male and female British and Irish playwrights from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. The contributions suggest that at the heart of inter-generational discord lies various crises between (the) age(d) and youth or, more generally, the idea of what is 'old' and 'new'. The interaction and co-existence of age and youth in their embodied, symbolic or conceptual forms is the topic of this volume. The collection is built around the words 'age(d)'/'young', which denote both the biological age of the characters and the more conceptual potential of these terms. Ultimately, the contributors to this collection of essays analyse not only the idea of inter-generationality within selected dramatic works but also inter-generational conflicts seen in clashes of cultures, artistic visions, concepts and aesthetic idea(l)s. Contents: part i Conflicted (St)ages: From Medieval Theatre to Nineteenth-Century Drama 27; JAMIE BECKETT 1 Fergus and the Virgin in Late Medieval York: Spectators and Inter-Generational Conflict 29; NIZAR ZOUIDI 2 My Father is Deceas�d�: Kingship, Patriarchy and Inter-Generational Conflicts in Edward II by Christopher Marlowe 51; MURAT OGUTCU 3 Of Fathers and Sons: Inter-Generational and Intrafamilial Loyalties and Conflict in Shakespeare�s Elizabethan History Plays 67; OZGE OZKAN GURCU 4 Once upon a Time Admired, Now Disregarded: Paternal Anguish and Loss of Authority with Old Age in The Merchant of Venice and King Lear 103 viii; KATARZYNA BRONK-BACON 5 Lessonson Age(ing):InterGenerational and Intrafamilial Conflict in Thomas Shadwell�s The Squire of Alsatia, Susanna Cent livre�s Love at Venture and James Millers The Man of Taste 119; MAIRE MACNEILL 6 Fashionable Confrontations: Decoding The Conscious Lovers 149; JESS HAMLET 7 �Not of an Age, but for All Time�: Intergenerational Reflections of Shakespeare in Civil War Virginia 167; part11 Inter(-) generational Strife and Cultural Revolutions in the Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries 189; WEI H.KAO 8 The Anglo Irish Big House and War Memories in Three Plays 191; TAKESHI KAWASHIMA 9 John Osborne�s Look Back in Anger and Inter- Generational Discontinuity 213; Onder Cakirtas 10 Semi-Patriographic and Pathographic Beckett: The Politics of Son�s Writing Father and Family in Endgame 235; CHRISTIAN JIMENEZ 11 After such Knowledge: Ageing as Agency and Agony in Harold Pinter�s The Caretaker 257 ix; LISA SIEFKER BAILEY iz �Trans� Generations in Caryl Churchill�s Cloud Nine 275; DEIRDRE O'LEARY iz Discrepancies of Embodiment: The Ageing Body and Fraught Familial Narratives in Two Plays by Enda Walsh 293; VICTORIA PETTERSEN LANTZ 14� Your Generation Curse�: Kwame Kwei- Armah�s Staging of West Indian Father hood in Britain 31 ISBN 9781788741620