236 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
James Alsop is an independent researcher and educator based in Exeter, Devon.
