James Alsop

Living Death in Early Modern Drama (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores historical, socio-political and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040035412
• Artikelnr.: 72247027

Autorenporträt

James Alsop is an independent researcher and educator based in Exeter, Devon.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Living Death: An Introduction Part 1 The Living Dead 2. What Do the Dead
Do? Playing Dead in Early Modern England 3. "In a Mist": Death and
Self¿Fashioning in The White Devil 4. "I Am Not To Be Altered": Body and
Soul in The Lady's Tragedy Part 2 The Dead Living 5. Cultural Zeitgeists:
Ghosts in the Early Modern Imagination 6. The Fêted Dead: Chrusöthriambos
and the Ghosts of Civic Pageantry 7. Spectators of Vengeance:
Metatheatrical Ghosts in Antonio's Revenge 8. "The End Is Where We Start
From": The Living Dead Today