An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
قائمة المحتويات
Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Reciting ‘Epitaph’ and ‘Genre’ in Early Modern England ‘Here lies’: Pointing to the ‘Graue Forme’ ‘Turn Thy Tombe Into a Throne’: Elizabeth I’s Death Rehearsal ‘In good stead of an epitaph’: Verifying History ‘Killing rhetorick’: The Poetics of Movere ‘An theater of mortality’: In Sincerity, Onstage ‘Lapping-up of Matter’: Epitaphic Closure in Elegies Epilogue: ‘Epitaph’ for Epitaph Bibliography Index
عن المؤلف
Scott Newstok teaches English at Rhodes College, USA. He is the author of
How to Think like Shakespeare and Quoting Death in Early Modern England; editor of
Paradise Lost: A Primer; and co-editor of
Weyward Macbeth, a collection of essays exploring the intersection of race and performance.
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