The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre

by Susan Zimmerman

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology.Susan Zimmerman argues that concepts of the corpse as a semi-animate, generative and indeterminate entity were deeply rooted in medieval religious culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748633634
• ISBN13: 9780748633630
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher