H. Austin Whitver

Tombs in Shakespearean Drama

Monumental Theater

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This project explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032343105
• ISBN-10: 1032343109
• Artikelnr.: 71236180

Autorenporträt

H. Austin Whitver is a Senior Instructor at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He received his Ph.D with a focus on Early Modern Drama from the University of Alabama through The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. He has published articles in Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 and Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and is a regular contributor to the Shakespeare Association of America conference.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Monumental theater
Chapter One: "My heart... shall be thy sepulchre": Shakespeare's early
monumental experimentation
Chapter Two: "A royal fellowship of death": Tombs in Shakespeare's second
tetraology
Chapter Three: "His bruisèd helmet and his bended sword": Henry V's
material mnemonics
Chapter Four: "Let my gravestone be your oracle": Fashioning tombs to speak
to the future
Chapter Five: "No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones": Changing
the status of the dead
Chapter Six: "Does not the stone rebuke me?" Tombs that preach and teach
Conclusion: "Two dishes, but to one table"