Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - THES SP - not paginated ID - bbbc2183 T1 - "Act Your Age: Reading and Performing Shakespeare's Ageing Women" AU - Waters, Claire PY - 2013 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Studies the "representation, performance, and reception of Shakespeare's aging women" in Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Winter's Tale, Coriolanus, King John, All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Richard III. "Finds the old and ageing women. . . to be represented as physically and verbally excessive. . . also identifies a corresponding urge in their reception towards the ageing woman's containment and control." ER -