[This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged...
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[This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death on stage is different from death in real life. The dead come to life, ghosts haunt the living, and scenes of mourning are subverted by the fact that the supposed corpse still breathes."--Back cover Something after death -- Measure for measure : the art of dying -- Death in comedy -- A plague on your houses -- Joy of the worm : death and sex -- Dying again : English histories -- Another Golgotha : places of death -- Die, die, die, die, die : cueing death -- Kindle again : life in death -- Coda : afterlives
