Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds by Palfrey, Simon
Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds by Palfrey, Simon

Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds

Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, his plays live on in theater and popular culture, given new...
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Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds by Palfrey, Simon

Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds

BD$61.46
Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds by Palfrey, Simon

Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds

BD$61.46
Author: Simon Palfrey
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, his plays live on in theater and popular culture, given new life through countless innovative approaches to their performance and interpretation. Just as our enthusiasm for seeing the plays performed--and transformed--affirms their continued life, death scenes in Shakespeare's plays tend to mark not an ending but a transformation of life.

Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Shakespeare's Dead documents the many ways Shakespeare's characters meet their demise, from suicide to murder, from death by workaday dagger to the more creative method of being baked and fed to one's family in a meat pie. Through these examples, Simon Palfrey and Emma Smith show Shakespeare's mastery at choreographing death as a means of rediscovery. Some characters refuse to go quietly, dying in stages, as in Nick Bottom's performance as Pyramus killing himself with much flourish in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Others are remembered in elegies, and still others are resurrected or reappear as ghosts. Shakespeare's death scenes also often speak to the boundaries between theater and everyday life, with funerals and scenes of mourning that are undercut by their staged inauthenticity.

Extensively illustrated with contemporary drawings and images from stage history, Shakespeare's Dead takes readers through the playwright's great death scenes and tragic figures, exploring in them the theme of life in death and delineating the cultural, religious, and social contexts.

Author: Simon Palfrey, Emma Smith
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Published: 07/15/2016
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.20h x 8.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781851242474

About the Author
Simon Palfrey is professor of English and a fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His most recent books are Shakespeare's Possible Worlds and Poor Tom: Living "King Lear." Emma Smith is a fellow in English at Hertford College, University of Oxford. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio, also published by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Together, they are the curators of the accompanying exhibition.


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