IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1517: Youth and Age in Early Drama
Thursday 14 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society |
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Organiser: | James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford |
Paper 1517-a | 'Youth walketh by nyght with swerdes and knyves': The Emergence of the Dramatised London Prodigal (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Performance Art - Drama |
Paper 1517-c | Respect for Elders in a 16th-Century Polish Resurrection Play (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Slavic, Performance Art - Drama |
Abstract | This session examines youth and age in early drama. This theme includes not only all forms of mimetic representations of the differences or similarities between the old and the young, but any entertainments in which the concepts of youth, old age, or the stages of human life are depicted, enacted, or examined. This session contains papers concerning the demonisation of boys in 'The Life and Death of Jack Straw', the representation of children in medieval drama and art, as well as the respect for elders in a Polish resurrection play. |