Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
L. Lenker (2001)
Fathers and Daughters in Shakespeare and Shaw
S. Deats, L. Lenker (1999)
Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective
B. Shaw (1970)
The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw : collected plays with their prefaces
D. Leary (1985)
Shaw and Shakespeare: Why NotThe Independent Shavian, 23
R. Weimann, S. Wells (1982)
Society and the Individual in Shakespeare’s Conception of Character
B. Shaw, Edwin Wilson (1971)
Shaw on Shakespeare : an anthology of Bernard Shaw's writings on the plays and production of Shakespeare
美子 富島 (1994)
Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle, New York, Viking, 1990, 70
W. Shakespeare (1997)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
R. Chapman (1995)
“I Have Seen More Years Than You”: Youth and Age iJulius Caesar. The Aligarh Journal of English Studies, 17
J. Carducci (1991)
Patriarchal Self Silencing in Shakespeare's Early Roman PlaysLanguage and Literature, 16
Gail Paster (1989)
‘In the spirit of men there is no blood’: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius CaesarShakespeare Quarterly, 40
P. Gail Kern (1989)
“In the Spirit of Men There Is No Blood”: Blood as a Trope of Gender iJulius Caesar. Shakespeare Quarterly, 40
Clifford Leech (1971)
Shaw and Shakespeare
J. Lacan (1977)
Écrits : A Selection
G. Beer (1997)
Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past
J. Crewe, J. Dollimore (1985)
Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.Mln, 100
B. Friedan (1993)
The Fountain of Age
T. G. Vesonder (1978)
Shaw's Caesar and the Mythic HeroShaw Review, 21
G. Beer (1989)
The Feminist Reader
M. Dahlin, T. Cole (1993)
The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America.The Journal of American History, 80
E. Showalter (1990)
Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle
Sharon O'dair (1993)
Social role and the making of identity in Julius CaesarStudies in English Literature 1500-1900, 33
B. Shaw (1932)
Our Theatres in the Nineties
C. A. Berst (1969)
The Anatomy of Greatness iCaesar and Cleopatra. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 68
R. Dietrich (1989)
British Drama, 1890 to 1950: A Critical History
This article affirms the view that literature transmits multiple reflections on human life that shape social mores. Examining stereotypes of age in literature as socially constructed artifacts reveals the prevailing attitudes toward aging during that time. This study focuses on the aging Julius Caesar in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. Writing 300 years apart, these two great playwrights inscribe both positive and negative models of aging, reflecting views in their eras that persist today. This article identifies these models, then explores them from a Lacanian standpoint, showing that each dramatist focuses on Caesar's ego development through the opinions of other characters. Offering a primarily negative view of aging, Shakespeare emphasizes the fragmented mirror images that other characters hold up to Caesar. Shaw self-consciously counters Shakespeare by foregrounding Caesar as subject, who beholds his aging self in the mirror of others' opinions while enacting a positive model of aging. Tracing this long tradition of aging stereotypes found in the two plays can be useful as scholars continue to reconstruct society's attitudes toward aging.
Journal of Aging and Identity – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 13, 2004
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.