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viii, 223 p. : ill. |
Content |
text |
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computer |
Carrier |
online resource |
Note |
Formerly CIP. |
Contents |
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Citation Introduction PART 1: POLITICS OF MOURNING Heavens Hung with Black: Elizabethan Rituals of Mourning Remembrance of Things Past Memory Battles and Stage Laments Facing the Dead: Theatricality and Historiography PART 2: PATHOLOGIES OF MOURNING Well-made Partings and the Problem of Revenge Translating Tradition: The Spanish Tragedy and Titus Andronicus Foreign Funerals and Colonial Mimesis: Historical Exchanges Hamlet and the Virtue of Assumed Custom PART 3: PHYSIOLOGIES OF MOURNING Secrets and Secretions Tears and the Uncertain Signs of Inwardness Rhetoric and the Techniques of Emotional Engineering Women, Widows and Mimetic Weeping PART 4: PARODIES OF MOURNING Mock Laments: The Play and Peal of Death Round about her Tomb they go: Much Ado About Nothing Ralph Roister Doister and the Anxiety of Borrowed Rites Noting and Ghosting: What Stage Paradoies Do Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index |
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Drawing on performance studies, this book provides detailed readings of major playtexts, Shakespearean and others, to explore the politics, pathologies, physiologies and parodies of mourning. |
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400 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
ISBN |
9780230627406 (e-book) |
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