Tombs in Shakespearean Drama - Monumental Theater

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

List of contents

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"

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: H. Austin Whitver
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032343105
• ISBN: 978-1-032-34310-5
• No. of pages: 212
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays