The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs (1st ed. 2022) (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies)

By: William E. Engel and Grant Williams

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030884901
Related ISBNs:: 9783030884895
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 06/06/22
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: William E. Engel
Edited by:: Grant Williams