The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among The Tombs (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies) - 9783030884925

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This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.


  • | Author: William E. Engel, Grant Williams
  • | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • | Publication Date: May 06, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 361 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 3030884929
  • | ISBN-13: 9783030884925
Author:
William E. Engel, Grant Williams
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date:
May 06, 2023
Number of pages:
361 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
3030884929
ISBN-13:
9783030884925