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  1. The Shakespearean Death Arts
    Hamlet Among the Tombs
    Contributor: Engel, William E. (HerausgeberIn); Williams, Grant (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham

    This is the first book to view Shakespeare's plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and... more

     

    This is the first book to view Shakespeare's plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare's corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare's plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide-at once epistemological and phenomenological-between premodernity and the Enlightenment

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Engel, William E. (HerausgeberIn); Williams, Grant (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783030884925
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022
    Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
    Subjects: Dance & other performing arts; Darstellende Künste; Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher; Geschichte der darstellenden Künste; HISTORY / Social History; LIT024000; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; Literary studies: general; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein; PERFORMING ARTS / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Social & cultural history; Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte; Theaterwissenschaft; Theatre studies
    Scope: 346 Seiten
    Notes:

    Section I: Staging the Death Arts .- Chapter One: Shakespeare's Ars Moriendi, Andrew D. McCarthy.- Chapter Two: Deciphering the Dead: Speaking for Corpses in Early Modern Drama, Brian Harries.- Chapter Three: 'As thou art, I once was'-Death's Unstable Binary, Eileen Sperry.- Chapter Four: Antony and Cleopatra and the Vicissitudes of Monumentalization, Grant Williams.- Chapter Five: Tombs, Ooze, and Ashes in Pericles, Dorothy Todd.- Chapter Six: Empathetic Reflections on Love, Life, and Death in Othello, Jessica Tooker.- Chapter Seven: Othello's Speaking Corpses and the Performance of Memento Mori, Maggie Vinter:- Section II: Hamlet and the Death Arts.- Chapter Eight: Turnings in the Grave: Riddles, Death, and Burial in Hamlet, Jonathan Baldo.- Chapter Nine: The Theatre of Hamlet's Judgements, Zackariah Long.- Chapter Ten: The Art of Losing: Description in Early Modern Rhetoric, Amanda K. Ruud.- Chapter Eleven: 'Native and indued / Unto that element': Dissolution, Permeability, and the Death of Ophelia, Pamela Royston Macfie.- Chapter Twelve: Artful Death and Women's Suicide: Gertrude and Ophelia, Lina Perkins Wilder.- Chapter Thirteen: Artless Deaths in Hamlet, Isabel Karremann.- Chapter Fourteen: 'He made a good end': Middleness, Ending, and Annihilation in Hamlet, Michael Neill.