A broad reading of the period's rich trove of funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, which daringly use individual deaths as opportunities for ethical reflection, political comment, and even satire.
A broad reading of the period's rich trove of funeral elegies, in both manuscript and print, which daringly use individual deaths as opportunities for ethical reflection, political comment, and even satire.
James Doelman is Associate Professor of English at Brescia University College, University of Western Ontario
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1 Prince Henry 2 'A Prison is in all things like a Grave: elegies on Arbella Stuart, Sir Thomas Overbury and Sir Walter Ralegh 3 Royal deaths 4 Military deaths of the 1620s 5 To 'Silence Slanders toungue': elegies on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 6 A defence of suicide: William Douglas' funeral elegy on the 2nd earl of Lothian (d. 1624) 7 Funeral elegies on elite women 8 From robe to winding sheet: funeral elegies on churchmen and scholars 9 Distracted into heresy Afterword Appendix: Terminology, genres and sub-genres Select Bibliography
Introduction 1 Prince Henry 2 'A Prison is in all things like a Grave: elegies on Arbella Stuart, Sir Thomas Overbury and Sir Walter Ralegh 3 Royal deaths 4 Military deaths of the 1620s 5 To 'Silence Slanders toungue': elegies on George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 6 A defence of suicide: William Douglas' funeral elegy on the 2nd earl of Lothian (d. 1624) 7 Funeral elegies on elite women 8 From robe to winding sheet: funeral elegies on churchmen and scholars 9 Distracted into heresy Afterword Appendix: Terminology, genres and sub-genres Select Bibliography
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