Living Death in Early Modern Drama
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2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-07168-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-07168-8 (ISBN)
This book explores historical, socio-political and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.
Just as zombies, ghouls, and the undead in modern media often stand in for present-day concerns, early modern writers frequently imagined living death in complex ways that allowed them to address contemporary anxieties. These include fresh bleeding bodies (and body parts), ghostly Lord Mayors, and dying characters who must carefully choose their last words – or have those words chosen for them by the living. As well as offering fresh interpretations of well-known plays such as Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy and Webster’s The White Devil, this innovative study also sheds light on less well-known works such as the anonymous The Tragedy of Locrine, Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, and Munday’s mayoral pageants Chruso-thriambos and Chrysanaleia. The author demonstrates that wherever characters in early modern drama appear to straddle the line between this world and the next, it is rarely a simple matter of life and death.
This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in theatre and performance studies, and cultural and social studies.
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.
Just as zombies, ghouls, and the undead in modern media often stand in for present-day concerns, early modern writers frequently imagined living death in complex ways that allowed them to address contemporary anxieties. These include fresh bleeding bodies (and body parts), ghostly Lord Mayors, and dying characters who must carefully choose their last words – or have those words chosen for them by the living. As well as offering fresh interpretations of well-known plays such as Middleton’s The Lady’s Tragedy and Webster’s The White Devil, this innovative study also sheds light on less well-known works such as the anonymous The Tragedy of Locrine, Marston’s Antonio’s Revenge, and Munday’s mayoral pageants Chruso-thriambos and Chrysanaleia. The author demonstrates that wherever characters in early modern drama appear to straddle the line between this world and the next, it is rarely a simple matter of life and death.
This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in theatre and performance studies, and cultural and social studies.
James Alsop is an independent researcher and educator based in Exeter, Devon.
1. Living Death: An Introduction Part 1 The Living Dead 2. What Do the Dead Do? Playing Dead in Early Modern England 3. "In a Mist": Death and Self‑Fashioning in The White Devil 4. "I Am Not To Be Altered": Body and Soul in The Lady’s Tragedy Part 2 The Dead Living 5. Cultural Zeitgeists: Ghosts in the Early Modern Imagination 6. The Fêted Dead: Chruso‑thriambos and the Ghosts of Civic Pageantry 7. Spectators of Vengeance: Metatheatrical Ghosts in Antonio’s Revenge 8. "The End Is Where We Start From": The Living Dead Today
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-07168-0 / 1032071680 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-07168-8 / 9781032071688 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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