{"product_id":"the-shakespearean-death-arts-hamlet-among-the-tombs-9783030884925","title":"The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): William E. Engel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book to view Shakespeare's plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare's corpus and then, second, of \u003ci\u003eHamlet \u003c\/i\u003eexclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare's plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide--at once epistemological and phenomenological--between premodernity and the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam E. Engel is the Nick B. Williams Professor of Literature at The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. He has published eight books on literary history and applied emblematics, including two critical anthologies coauthored with Rory Loughnane and Grant Williams, \u003ci\u003e The Death Arts in Renaissance England \u003c\/i\u003e(2022) and \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Arts in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e (2016); and has coedited several collections of essays including \u003ci\u003eMemory and Mortality in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and \u003ci\u003eMemory and Forgetting in the Early Modern Era\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrant Williams is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. With William E. Engel and Rory Loughnane, he has co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Death Arts in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e (2022) and, with Donald Beecher, edited \u003ci\u003eHenry Chettle's Kind-Heart's Dream and Piers Plainness: Two Pamphlets from the Elizabethan Book Trade\u003c\/i\u003e (2021). He has also co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Arts in Renaissance England\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) with Engel and Loughnane and co-edited three collections: \u003ci\u003eTaking Exception to the Law\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eArs reminiscendi\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and \u003ci\u003eLethe's Legacies\u003c\/i\u003e (2004)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276842786967,"sku":"9783030884925","price":11017.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030884925.webp?v=1769286800","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-shakespearean-death-arts-hamlet-among-the-tombs-9783030884925","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}