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The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare´s Theatre
Susan Zimmerman
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Paperback. This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology. Num Pages: 288 pages, None. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 392.
Now available in paperback, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology. Susan Zimmerman argues that concepts of the corpse as a semi-animate, generative and indeterminate entity were deeply rooted in medieval religious culture. Such concepts ran counter to early modern discourses that sought to harden categorical distinctions between body/spirit, animate/inanimate - in particular, the attacks of Reformists on the materiality of 'dead' idols, and the rationale of the new anatomy for publicly dissecting 'dead' bodies. Zimmerman contends that within this context, theatrical representations of the corpse or corpse/revenant - as seen here in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries - uniquely showcased the theatre's own ideological and performative agency. Features * Original in its conjunction of critical theory (Bataille, Kristeva, Lacan, Benjamin) with an historical account of the shifting status of the corpse in late medieval and early modern England * The first study to demonstrate connections between the meanings attached to the material body in early modern Protestantism, the practice of anatomical dissection, and the English public theatre
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748633630
SKU
V9780748633630
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About Susan Zimmerman
Susan Zimmerman is Professor of English at the City University of New York
Reviews for The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare´s Theatre
Susan Zimmerman delivers an elegant and concise reading of what it meant to be, or to present, or to observe, a dead body on the early modern Englih stage.
Bruce Boehrer Zimmerman performs a tour de force of interpretation in this important book ... Advanced scholars will find it an indispensable contribution to the growing scholarship interrogating the significance of dead bodies on stage and page. A powerful demonstration of how Protestantism, anatomy, and drama were engaged in a struggle over the meaning to be attached to the material body...an illuminating exposition of theories of the corpse with an historical account of its shifting status...an outstanding project.
Professor Peter Stallybrass, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania An ambitious project that represents a genuine extension of our understanding of the historical and theatrical contexts of these plays - Zimmerman provides a new and exciting theoretical framework in Walter Benjamin's treatment of tragedy.
Professor John Drakakis, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling The considerable strengths of this book lie in its analysis of the effect of reformation ideology on the theater's representation of the corpse and Zimmerman's subtle invocation of pschoanalytic theory as a way of understanding early modern culture. Renaissance Quarterly ...a provocative and careful study ... it is clear from Zimmerman's considerable efforts in this study that there is a lively and far-reaching cultural life in the dead bodies she considers. The Sixteenth Century Journal An ambitious historicist combination of anthropology, medical history, religious and folk beliefs, and literary theory and criticism. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Susan Zimmerman delivers an elegant and concise reading of what it meant to be, or to present, or to observe, a dead body on the early modern Englih stage. Zimmerman performs a tour de force of interpretation in this important book ... Advanced scholars will find it an indispensable contribution to the growing scholarship interrogating the significance of dead bodies on stage and page. A powerful demonstration of how Protestantism, anatomy, and drama were engaged in a struggle over the meaning to be attached to the material body...an illuminating exposition of theories of the corpse with an historical account of its shifting status...an outstanding project. An ambitious project that represents a genuine extension of our understanding of the historical and theatrical contexts of these plays - Zimmerman provides a new and exciting theoretical framework in Walter Benjamin's treatment of tragedy. The considerable strengths of this book lie in its analysis of the effect of reformation ideology on the theater's representation of the corpse and Zimmerman's subtle invocation of pschoanalytic theory as a way of understanding early modern culture. ...a provocative and careful study ... it is clear from Zimmerman's considerable efforts in this study that there is a lively and far-reaching cultural life in the dead bodies she considers. An ambitious historicist combination of anthropology, medical history, religious and folk beliefs, and literary theory and criticism.
Bruce Boehrer Zimmerman performs a tour de force of interpretation in this important book ... Advanced scholars will find it an indispensable contribution to the growing scholarship interrogating the significance of dead bodies on stage and page. A powerful demonstration of how Protestantism, anatomy, and drama were engaged in a struggle over the meaning to be attached to the material body...an illuminating exposition of theories of the corpse with an historical account of its shifting status...an outstanding project.
Professor Peter Stallybrass, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania An ambitious project that represents a genuine extension of our understanding of the historical and theatrical contexts of these plays - Zimmerman provides a new and exciting theoretical framework in Walter Benjamin's treatment of tragedy.
Professor John Drakakis, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling The considerable strengths of this book lie in its analysis of the effect of reformation ideology on the theater's representation of the corpse and Zimmerman's subtle invocation of pschoanalytic theory as a way of understanding early modern culture. Renaissance Quarterly ...a provocative and careful study ... it is clear from Zimmerman's considerable efforts in this study that there is a lively and far-reaching cultural life in the dead bodies she considers. The Sixteenth Century Journal An ambitious historicist combination of anthropology, medical history, religious and folk beliefs, and literary theory and criticism. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance Susan Zimmerman delivers an elegant and concise reading of what it meant to be, or to present, or to observe, a dead body on the early modern Englih stage. Zimmerman performs a tour de force of interpretation in this important book ... Advanced scholars will find it an indispensable contribution to the growing scholarship interrogating the significance of dead bodies on stage and page. A powerful demonstration of how Protestantism, anatomy, and drama were engaged in a struggle over the meaning to be attached to the material body...an illuminating exposition of theories of the corpse with an historical account of its shifting status...an outstanding project. An ambitious project that represents a genuine extension of our understanding of the historical and theatrical contexts of these plays - Zimmerman provides a new and exciting theoretical framework in Walter Benjamin's treatment of tragedy. The considerable strengths of this book lie in its analysis of the effect of reformation ideology on the theater's representation of the corpse and Zimmerman's subtle invocation of pschoanalytic theory as a way of understanding early modern culture. ...a provocative and careful study ... it is clear from Zimmerman's considerable efforts in this study that there is a lively and far-reaching cultural life in the dead bodies she considers. An ambitious historicist combination of anthropology, medical history, religious and folk beliefs, and literary theory and criticism.