Last Acts : : The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage / / Maggie Vinter.
Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memor...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction. The art of dying -- |t Chapter 1. Dying badly: doctor faustus and the parodic drama of blasphemy -- |t Chapter 2. Dying politically: Edward II and the ends of dynastic monarchy -- |t Chapter 3. Dying representatively: Richard II and the politics of mimetic mortality -- |t Chapter 4. Dying communally: Volpone and how to get rich quick -- |t Epilogue. Afterlife -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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520 | |a Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memorialize the dead, at times even asserting that theater itself constitutes a form of mourning. But early modern plays also engage with devotional traditions that understand death less as an occasion for suffering or grief than as an action to be performed, well or badly.Active deaths belie narratives of helplessness and loss through which mortality is too often read and instead suggest how marginalized and constrained subjects might participate in the political, social, and economic management of life. Some early modern strategies for dying resonate with descriptions of politicized biological life in the recent work of Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito, or with ecclesiastical forms. Yet the art of dying is not solely a discipline imposed upon recalcitrant subjects. Since it offers suffering individuals a way to enact their deaths on their own terms, it discloses both political and dramatic action in their most minimal manifestations. Rather than mournfully marking what we cannot recover, the practice of dying reveals what we can do, even in death. By analyzing representations of dying in plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory, Last Acts shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Death in literature. | |
650 | 0 | |a English drama |y 17th century |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a English drama |y Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Theater |z England |x History |y 16th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a Theater |z England |x History |y 17th century. | |
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653 | |a Ars moriendi. | ||
653 | |a Ben Jonson. | ||
653 | |a Christopher Marlowe. | ||
653 | |a Death. | ||
653 | |a Giorgio Agamben. | ||
653 | |a Renaissance Drama. | ||
653 | |a Robert Esposito. | ||
653 | |a William Shakespeare. | ||
653 | |a biopolitics. | ||
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