Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death

Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Shakespeare’s enduring significance lies in the persistent counternarrative his plays and poetry offer against the permanence of mortality. This study examines the strategies through which Shakespeare resists death’s finality, situating its argument within the cultural realities of the Shakespearean age. Across three sections, it analyzes the dramatic and poetic techniques that articulate this challenge to mortality. While acknowledging the importance of textual and performance-based scholarship, the book argues for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning. In doing so, it reconsiders what continues to make Shakespeare matter within literary and intellectual history.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-09-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor330
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781807580087

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AcknowledgmentsNote on QuotationsIntroductionPrologue: Life and Death in the Age of ShakespearePart I: Strategies of the BodyChapter 1. Of Sleep and Dreams; Creation of Children; Slowing of Death; RecyclingChapter 2. Corpse as Prop; Digging More DeeplyPart II: Strategies of the WorldChapter 3. Fame; Infamy; Rumor; ReputationChapter 4. Arcadian Retreat, and PosterityChapter 5. The Earlier TetralogyChapter 6. The Later TetralogyChapter 7. The SingletonsPart III: Other StrategiesChapter 8. The NuminousChapter 9. The DramatistConclusion: Of Macbeth and JaquesAppendix: Selected Scholarship of ShakespeareReferences