:The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre

Abstract

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Dead Bodies (theoretical introduction: Bataille, Douglas, Kristeva, Lacan, Benjamin) Chapter 2 Body Imaging and Religious Reform: The Corpse as Idol (historicist analysis of shifts in sacramental, iconographic, and theological imaging of the corpse from the late medieval to the early modern periods in England) Chapter 3 Animating Matter: The Corpse as Idol in The Second Maiden's Tragedy and The Duke of Milan (includes analysis of English public theatre) Chapter 4 Invading the Grave: Shadow Lives in The Revenger's Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi (includes analysis of English funerary customs and the practice of anatomical dissection) Chapter 5 Killing the Dead: Duncan's Corpse and Hamlet's Ghost Epilogue: Last Words.

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