Treatment of Senescence in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Eugene O' Neill's Desire Under the Elms.
Anthony Ellis (2011, 13) examines an excerpt from Thomas Elyot's Castel of Health (1541) in which he observes a doctor's conception about growing old: "old age equals the inception of 'bad humor' and calls for professional intervention." The depiction of senescence or biological aging in literature...
| Publicado en: | IUP Journal of English Studies Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 142 - 156 |
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