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Monuments and literary posterity in early modern drama /

"In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early moder...

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Main Authors: Chalk, Brian (Author)
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, UK :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
Monuments in literature.
Memorials in literature.
Drama > Publishing > England > History > 16th century.
Drama > Publishing > England > History > 17th century.
Summary: "In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history"--
Carrier Form: xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-219) and index.
ISBN: 9781107123472 (hardback) :
110712347X (hardback)
9781316413234 (PDF ebook)
1316413233 (PDF ebook)
Index Number: PR658
CLC: I561.073
Call Number: I561.073/C436
Contents: Introduction: "raptures of futurity" -- 1. "Let All things End": Marlowe's immortality -- 2. Jonson's textual monument -- 3. Webster's "worthyest monument": the problem of posterity in The Duchess of Malfi -- 4. "Mocking life": preemptive commemoration in The Winter's Tale -- 5. Fletcher's future: dynasty and collaborative posterity in Henry VIII -- Coda: what they hath left us -- Select bibliography -- Index.

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