Introduction: Monumental theater
Chapter One: "My heart… shall be thy sepulchre": Shakespeare’s early monumental experimentation
Chapter Two: "A royal fellowship of death": Tombs in Shakespeare’s second tetraology
Chapter Three: "His bruisèd helmet and his bended sword": Henry V’s material mnemonics
Chapter Four: "Let my gravestone be your oracle": Fashioning tombs to speak to the future
Chapter Five: "No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o’er his bones": Changing the status of the dead
Chapter Six: "Does not the stone rebuke me?" Tombs that preach and teach
Conclusion: "Two dishes, but to one table"
Biography
H. Austin Whitver is a Senior Instructor at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He received his Ph.D with a focus on Early Modern Drama from the University of Alabama through The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. He has published articles in Studies in English Literature: 1500–1900 and Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and is a regular contributor to the Shakespeare Association of America conference.
