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Tombs in Shakespearean Drama
- Monumental Theater
Engelsk
Bogcover for Tombs in Shakespearean Drama af H. Austin Whitver, 9781032343105
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Engelsk
Sider:
212
ISBN-13:
9781032343105
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032343109
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 aug 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
26 aug 2024
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Tombs in Shakespearean Drama

- Monumental Theater
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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Tombs in Shakespearean Drama explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential. By analyzing references to tombs in plays by Shakespeare and others in conjunction with extant monuments, this volume demonstrates how these references function in two overlapping ways in period drama: monuments act as repositories of information about the past, and they allow the living to construct and preserve fictive narratives.

The stage exposes the flimsy materiality of paper, placing less value on the written word than period poetry. In this way, critics have perhaps oversold as universal Shakespeare’s poetic praise of stone. Tombs within plays act as a powerful historical and narrative medium, raising the stakes to provide the stage with the illusion of permanency. Playwrights use tombs to anchor the stage action, giving a sense of lasting importance to dramatic events and combatting the ephemeral nature of the playhouse. In drama, Shakespeare and others drew on the persona preserved on tombs; this volume widens our view of how these representations interacted in the commemorative economy of early modern England. Within the playhouse, it was the tomb, not the tome, that stood as a symbol of permanence.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
212
ISBN-13:
9781032343105
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032343109
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 aug 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
26 aug 2024
Forfatter(e):
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