‘Experienc’d Age knows what for Youth is fit’?

Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She teaches the History of English Literature but specialises in Restoration theatre and drama. She has been exploring representations and dramatisations of ageing and old age and her current research on the matters of senescence, titled «Embodied sites of memory? Investigations into the definitions and representations of old age and ageing in English drama between 1660 and 1750», is supported by a grant from the Polish National Science Centre. She is the author of the monograph «And Yet I Remember»: Ageing and Old(er) Age in English Drama between 1660 and the 1750s (Peter Lang, 2019).

CONTENTS: Jamie Beckett: Fergus and the Virgin in Late Medieval York: Spectators and Inter-Generational Conflict – Nizar Zouidi: «My Father is Deceas’d»: Kingship, Patriarchy and Inter-Generational Conflicts in Edward II by Christopher Marlowe – Murat Oğutcu: Of Fathers and Sons: Inter-Generational and Intrafamilial Loyalties and Conflict in Shakespeare’s Elizabethan History Plays – Ozge Ozkan-Gurcu: Once upon a Time Admired, Now Disregarded: Paternal Anguish and Loss of Authority with Old Age in The Merchant of Venice and King Lear – Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon: Lessons on Age(ing): Inter-Generational and Intrafamilial Conflict in Thomas Shadwell’s The Squire of Alsatia, Susanna Centlivre’s Love at a Venture and James Miller’s The Man of Taste – Maire MacNeill: Fashionable Confrontations: Decoding The Conscious Lovers – Jess Hamlet: «Not of an Age, but for All Time»: Intergenerational Reflections of Shakespeare in Civil War Virginia – Wei H. Kao: The Anglo-Irish Big House and War Memories in Three Plays – Takeshi Kawashima: John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and Inter-Generational Discontinuity – Onder Cakırtaş:10 Semi-Patriographic and Pathographic Beckett: The Politics of Son’s Writing Father and Family in Endgame – Christian Jimenez: After such Knowledge: Ageing as Agency and Agony in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker – Lisa Siefker Bailey: «Trans» Generations in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine – Deirdre O’Leary: Discrepancies of Embodiment: The Ageing Body and Fraught Familial Narratives in Two Plays by Enda Walsh – Victoria Pettersen Lantz: «Your Generation Curse»: Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Staging of West Indian Fatherhood in Britain.