Shakespeare's Dead

[This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death on stage is different from death in real life. The dead come to life, ghosts haunt the living, and scenes of mourning are subverted by the fact that the supposed corpse still breathes."--Back cover.

Info autore

Simon Palfrey is professor of English and a fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simon Palfrey, Simon Palfrey, Emma Smith
• Editore: The Bodleian Library
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 22.04.2016
• EAN: 9781851242474
• ISBN: 978-1-85124-247-4
• Pagine: 192
• Dimensioni: 212 mm x 214 mm x 21 mm
• Peso: 716 g
• Illustrazioni: 70 Illustrations, color
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata