Shaping Remembrance From Shakespeare to Milton

A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

List of contents

Introduction - 'An amber casket'; Part I. 'Signes of Remembrance': 1. 'A Mousoleum for a flie': Sidney Montagu and the sacramental sign; 2. Wondrous work: crafting remembrance in the Montagu archive; 3. Innogen's needle: remembrance and romance in Cymbeline; Part II. 'Monuments of Antiquitie'; 4. 'The grave is but a cabinet': remembrance and recreation in post-reformation London; 5. Shakespearean reliquaries: Pericles and the ark of wonder; 6. 'Chain'd up in alabaster': awakening remembrance in The Winter's Tale and Comus; Conclusion - 'many worlds fantastic framed'.

About the author

Patricia Phillippy is Professor of English Literature at Kingston University, London. She has published widely in early modern literature and culture, with a special focus on women's writing. Her books include Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Cambridge, 2002), and Painting Women: Cosmetics, Canvases, and Early Modern Culture (2006). She has edited the writings of Elizabeth Cooke Hoby Russell as The Writings of An English Sappho (2011), and A History of Early Modern Women's Writing (Cambridge, 2018).

Summary

This book studies the arts of remembrance in post-Reformation England, including funeral monuments, manuscripts, and artifacts, relating their meanings to Shakespeare's late plays, Milton's Comus and epitaphs, and works written or commissioned by women. This book places monuments at the center of the period's religious and cultural identities.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Phillippy, Patricia (Kingston University Phillippy, Phillippy Patricia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781108422987
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42298-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600