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Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory
By (author) William Engel
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Drawing on a range of works from the English Renaissance, this text offers a 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. Special attention is given, initially, to select tragedies by Shakespeare and other contemporary playwrights who stage spectacles of silent death. This is followed by a survey of the end to which foreign language phrase-books crafted highly mannered vignettes of daily life, and a discussion of the ways in which metaphors of the stage were translated into a body of work which portrayed the soul of history in terms of an over-riding aesthetic of decline The result is an account of the essentially mnemonic principles of design informing and animating a range of works from the English Renaissance.
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Publisher | Oxford University Press
Published date | 7 Nov 2002
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 214
Dimensions | 224 x 144 x 17mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 333g
ISBN | 978-0-1992-5762-1
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