Issues of death: mortality and identity in English Renaissance tragedy 9780198183860, 0198183860, 9780191588563, 0191588563

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Epigraph......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Note on Conventions Used in the Text......Page 14
Inventing Death......Page 16
Envisaging Death......Page 18
Shameful Death......Page 23
Indifferent Death......Page 28
Theatre and Plague......Page 37
Tragedy and Death......Page 44
Memorializing Death......Page 53
Issues of Death......Page 57
Part I: 'Within all rottenness': Tragedy, Death, and Apocalypse......Page 64
The Dance of Death......Page 66
Envisaging Death: From the Danse Macabre to the Totentanz of Basel......Page 77
Theatre and the Macabre......Page 96
The Triumph of Death......Page 103
'This my fatal chair': Marlowe's Tamburlaine and the Triumph of Death......Page 107
Anatomy and Death......Page 117
Vesalius and the Scene of Dissection......Page 129
Anatomy and Discovery......Page 137
Anatomy in the Theatre......Page 149
3: Opening the Moor: Death and Discovery in Othello......Page 156
'Show me thy thought'......Page 157
Othello's Darkness......Page 160
Opening Iago......Page 166
The Encaved Self: Othello and Inwardness......Page 170
Opening Masculinity......Page 174
Drawing the Curtain: Apocalypse in the Bedchamber......Page 177
The Changeling and Othello......Page 183
The Castellated Body......Page 190
Entering the Body......Page 196
Private Passages......Page 200
Discovering Death......Page 204
Part II: Making an End: Death's Arrest and the Shaping of Tragic Narrative......Page 214
Writing Finis......Page 216
Kyd and the Ends of Revenge......Page 226
Death and Narrative Desire......Page 231
'Forbid to tell the secrets'......Page 235
'They'll tell all': Playing the End......Page 241
'Every fool can tell that': Narrative in the Graveyard......Page 248
'To tell my story': Hamlet and the Art of Ending......Page 252
Remembrance and Revenge......Page 258
'Must I remember?'......Page 266
'Chronicles of the time': Hamlet and the Performance of Memory......Page 273
Part III: 'Rue with a difference': Tragedy and the Funereal Arts......Page 278
Distinguishing the Dead: The Role of Heraldic Funerals......Page 280
Funeral Rites and Tragic Ending......Page 296
Displaced Funerals......Page 303
Maimed Rites......Page 307
Hamlet's Rites of Memory......Page 315
'Fame's eternity'......Page 320
Triumphant Graves......Page 323
Marble Constancy......Page 327
Monuments and Ruins......Page 343
'Non norunt haec monumenta mori'......Page 347
'The figure cut in alabaster'......Page 353
'Hearts are hollow graves'......Page 356
Finis coronat opus......Page 363
11: 'Great arts best write themselves in their own stories': Ending The Broken Heart......Page 369
Appendix: The Plague and the Dance of Death......Page 390
Primary Sources......Page 392
Books......Page 395
Articles and Essays......Page 401
Index......Page 408