The Death Arts In Renaissance England
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The Death Arts in Renaissance England
Author | : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2022-09-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108800396 |
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The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.
The Death Arts in Renaissance England
Author | : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 1108749569 |
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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
Author | : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108910422 |
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Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.
Death and Drama in Renaissance England
Author | : William E. Engel |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199257620 |
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The Shakespearean Death Arts
Author | : William E. Engel,Grant Williams |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2022-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783030884901 |
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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.
The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
Author | : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2016-08-18 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107086814 |
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Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
The Theatre of Death
Author | : Jennifer Woodward |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780851157047 |
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English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.
Issues of Death
Author | : Michael Neill |
Publsiher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1997-05-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780191588563 |
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Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part I explore Death as a trope of apocalypse — a moment of un-veiling or dis-covery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful openings enacted in the new theatres of anatomy. Separate chapters explore the apocalyptic design of two of the periods most powerful tragedies — Shakespeare's Othello, and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling. In Part 2, Neill explores the psychological and affective consequences of tragedy's fiercely end-driven narrative in a number of plays where a longing for narrative closure is pitched against a particularly intense dread of ending. The imposition of an end is often figured as an act of writerly violence, committed by the author or his dramatic surrogate. Extensive attention is paid to Hamlet as an extreme example of the structural consequences of such anxiety. The function of revenge tragedy as a response to the radical displacement of the dead by the Protestant abolition of purgatory — one of the most painful aspects of the early modern re-imagining of death — is also illustrated with particular clarity. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the way tragedy articulates its challenge to the undifferentiating power of death through conventions and motifs borrowed from the funereal arts. It offers detailed analyses of three plays — Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Ford's The Broken Heart. Here, funeral is rewritten as triumph, and death becomes the chosen instrument of an heroic self-fashioning designed to dress the arbitrary abruption of mortal ending in a powerful aesthetic of closure.