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Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama
Brian Chalk
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Description for Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama
hardcover. This book re-evaluates the relationship between Renaissance dramatists and literary posterity by examining their work in relation to post-Reformation ideas about memorialization. Num Pages: 236 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 512.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
231
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107123472
SKU
V9781107123472
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About Brian Chalk
Brian Chalk is Assistant Professor of English at Manhattan College, New York. He has published essays on early modern drama and culture in journals including Studies in Philology and Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900.
Reviews for Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama
'This is at once an admirable study of the paradoxes of memorialization in several important Renaissance dramatic texts, and a significant intervention in the contemporary critical conversation.' Clara Calvo, Universidad de Murcia, Spain This is at once an admirable study of the paradoxes of memorialization in several important Renaissance dramatic texts, and a significant intervention in the contemporary critical ... Read more