Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory - Hardcover

Engel, William

 
9780199257621: Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory

Synopsis

Drawing on a range of works from the English Renaissance, Death and Drama in Renaissance England offers a novel way to understand, in their original contexts, key aspects of Renaissance mental life and letters. Focusing on the classical Memory Arts, William Engel explores issues of death and decline in exemplary dramas, dictionaries, and histories of the period, and demonstrates the ways in which emblems and memory images were used to communicate special meanings.

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About the Author

William E. Engel is an independent scholar and freelance tutor; author of Education & Anarchy (University Press of America, 2001) and Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995). He has been Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, and Folger Shakespeare Library; Visiting Scholar at Harvard University; and is currently Visiting Professor at The University of the South.

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