Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture : Early Modern History - Tobias Doring

Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture

By: Tobias Doring, Tobias Daring, Tobias D. Ring

Hardcover | 19 September 2006 | Edition Number 1

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This bold and wide-ranging study takes a fresh look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged? Many rites of mourning shown in the theatre held Catholic resonances, but how did such memories of traditional worship work in post-Reformation England? Drawing on performance studies, this book provides detailed readings of major playtexts, Shakespearean and others, to explore the politics, pathologies, physiologies and parodies of mourning.
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'...a timely and welcome contribution to this field...a densely argued, rewarding study, offering readers a wealth of material regarding rituals of mourning and commemoration in the studied texts and early modern England more generally...' - Wolfram R. Keller, Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

'In eloquent prose, and with clarity and precision of argument, Doring shows how the Shakespearean theatre, in its repetitious, commemorative, and comic performances of mourning, accomplished the necessary cultural work of habituation.' - Katharine Goodland, Sonderdruck aus Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen

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