The Death Arts In Renaissance England

Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108800396

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The Death Arts in Renaissance England by William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams Pdf

The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.

Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Death
ISBN : 1108749569

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The Death Arts in Renaissance England by William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams Pdf

Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108910422

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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England by William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams Pdf

Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199257620

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Death and Drama in Renaissance England by William E. Engel Pdf

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Author : William E. Engel,Grant Williams
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030884901

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The Shakespearean Death Arts by William E. Engel,Grant Williams Pdf

This is the first book to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.

Author : William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107086814

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The Memory Arts in Renaissance England by William E. Engel,Rory Loughnane,Grant Williams Pdf

Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.

Author : Jennifer Woodward
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780851157047

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The Theatre of Death by Jennifer Woodward Pdf

English royal funeral ceremony from Mary, Queen of Scots to James I gives fascinating insight into the relationship between power and ritual at the renaissance court.

Author : Henry Chettle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OXFORD:300029421

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Kind-heart's Dream by Henry Chettle Pdf

Author : Michael Neill
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191588563

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Issues of Death by Michael Neill Pdf

Death, like most experiences that we think of as natural, is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part I explore Death as a trope of apocalypse — a moment of un-veiling or dis-covery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful openings enacted in the new theatres of anatomy. Separate chapters explore the apocalyptic design of two of the periods most powerful tragedies — Shakespeare's Othello, and Middleton and Rowley's The Changeling. In Part 2, Neill explores the psychological and affective consequences of tragedy's fiercely end-driven narrative in a number of plays where a longing for narrative closure is pitched against a particularly intense dread of ending. The imposition of an end is often figured as an act of writerly violence, committed by the author or his dramatic surrogate. Extensive attention is paid to Hamlet as an extreme example of the structural consequences of such anxiety. The function of revenge tragedy as a response to the radical displacement of the dead by the Protestant abolition of purgatory — one of the most painful aspects of the early modern re-imagining of death — is also illustrated with particular clarity. Finally, Part 3 focuses on the way tragedy articulates its challenge to the undifferentiating power of death through conventions and motifs borrowed from the funereal arts. It offers detailed analyses of three plays — Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's The Duchess of Malfi, and Ford's The Broken Heart. Here, funeral is rewritten as triumph, and death becomes the chosen instrument of an heroic self-fashioning designed to dress the arbitrary abruption of mortal ending in a powerful aesthetic of closure.

Author : William E. Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429628207

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The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History by William E. Engel Pdf

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England’s first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to—and still remains—a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art.

Author : Elizabeth Cleland,Adam Eaker,Marjorie E. Wieseman,Sarah Bochicchio
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396921

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The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England by Elizabeth Cleland,Adam Eaker,Marjorie E. Wieseman,Sarah Bochicchio Pdf

This fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors reveals the dynasty’s enduring influence on the arts of Renaissance England and beyond. Ruling successively from 1485 through 1603, the five Tudor monarchs brought seismic changes to England that reverberated throughout Europe. They used the arts to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous rule, from Henry VII’s bloody rise to power, through Henry VIII’s breach with the Roman Catholic Church, to the reign of the “Virgin Queen” Elizabeth I. With incisive scholarship and sumptuous new photography, this book explores the extreme politics and outsize personalities of the Tudors, and how they used art in their diplomacy at home and abroad. Tudor courts were truly cosmopolitan, attracting top artists and artisans from across Europe. At the same time, the Tudors nurtured local talent and gave rise to a distinctly English aesthetic, one that is forever connected to the myth and visual legacy of their dynasty. The Tudors reveals the true history behind a family that has long captured the public imagination, bringing to life their extravagant and politically precarious world through the exquisite paintings, lush textiles, gleaming metalwork, and countless luxury objects that adorned their spectacular courts.

Author : Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009051491

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Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England by Jonathan Baldo,Isabel Karremann Pdf

This is the first collection to systematically combine the study of memory and affect in early modern culture. Essays by leading and emergent scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies offer an innovative research agenda, inviting new, exploratory approaches to Shakespeare's work that embrace interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. Drawing on the contexts of Renaissance literature across genres and on various discourses including rhetoric, medicine, religion, morality, historiography, colonialism, and politics, the chapters bring together a broad range of texts, concerns, and methodologies central to the study of early modern culture. Stimulating for postgraduate students, lecturers, and researchers with an interest in the broader fields of memory studies and the history of the emotions – two vibrant and growing areas of research – it will also prove invaluable to teachers of Shakespeare, dramaturges, and directors of stage productions, provoking discussions of how convergences of memory and affect influence stagecraft, dramaturgy, rhetoric, and poetic language.

Author : Nigel Llewellyn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780231518

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Art of Death by Nigel Llewellyn Pdf

How did our ancestors die? Whereas in our own day the subject of death is usually avoided, in pre-Industrial England the rituals and processes of death were present and immediate. People not only surrounded themselves with memento mori, they also sought to keep alive memories of those who had gone before. This continual confrontation with death was enhanced by a rich culture of visual artifacts. In The Art of Death, Nigel Llewellyn explores the meanings behind an astonishing range of these artifacts, and describes the attitudes and practices which lay behind their production and use. Illustrated and explained in this book are an array of little-known objects and images such as death's head spoons, jewels and swords, mourning-rings and fans, wax effigies, church monuments, Dance of Death prints, funeral invitations and ephemera, as well as works by well-known artists, including Holbein, Hogarth and Blake.

Author : Katharine Goodland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351936644

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Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama by Katharine Goodland Pdf

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England. Second, the author here brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past. Finally, Goodland addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were viewed as increasingly disturbing after the Reformation. Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama synthesizes and is relevant to several areas of recent scholarly interest, including the performance of gender, the history of emotion, studies of death and mourning, and the cultural trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Phoebe S. Spinrad
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 9780814204436

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The Summons of Death on the Medieval and Renaissance English Stage by Phoebe S. Spinrad Pdf