Quoting Death In Early Modern England
An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
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An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
List of illustrationsIntroduction Reciting "Epitaph" and "Genre" in Early Modern England1 "Here lies": Pointing to the "Graue Forme"2 "Turn Thy Tombe Into a Throne": Elizabeth I's Death Rehearsal3 "In good stead of an epitaph": Verifying History4 "Killing rhetorick": The Poetics of movere5 "An theater of mortality": In Sincerity, Onstage6 "Lapping-up of Matter": Epitaphic Closure in ElegiesEpilogue: "Epitaph" for EpitaphReferencesIndex
