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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Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death
Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry
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Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death
Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Quotations
- Introduction
- Prologue: Life and Death in the Age of Shakespeare
- Part I — Strategies of the Body
- Chapter 1 — Sleep and Dreams; Creation of Children; Slowing of Death; Recycling
- Chapter 2 — Corpse as Prop; Digging More Deeply
- Part II — Strategies of the World
- Chapter 3 — Fame; Infamy; Rumor; Reputation
- Chapter 4 — Arcadian Retreat, and Posterity
- Chapter 5 — The Earlier Tetralogy
- Chapter 6 — The Later Tetralogy
- Chapter 7 — The Singletons
- Part III — Other Strategies
- Chapter 8 — The Numinous
- Chapter 9 — The Dramatist
- Conclusion: Of Macbeth and Jaques
- Appendix: Selected Scholarship on Shakespeare
- References
- Index
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