Quoting Death in Early Modern England von S Newstok

Quoting Death in Early Modern England
The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb, Early Modern Literature in History
ISBN/EAN: 9781349301126
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 228 S.
Einband: kartoniertes Buch
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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.
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.