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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l’auteur
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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