How to Do Things with Dead People : : History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol / / Alice Dailey.
How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey takes as her principal objects of inquiry Shakespeare's English history plays, describing them as reproductive mechanisms by which living replicas of dead historical figures are...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 b&w photo, 19 color halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Luminous Spiral and the Cigarette Box, or Technologies of the Afterdeath
- 1. Little, Little Graves: Shakespeare’s Photographs of Richard II
- 2. Haunted Histories: Dramatic Double Exposure in Henry IV, Parts One and Two
- 3. Dummies and Doppelgängers: Performing for the Dead in 1 Henry VI
- 4. The King Machine: Reproducing Sovereignty in 3 Henry VI
- 5. Fuck Off and Die: The Queercrip Reign of Richard III
- Postscript: Lazarus Again
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index