How to do things with dead people : history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

How to do things with dead people : history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol / Alice Dailey.

"This book studies Shakespeare's English history plays, contextualizing them among reproductive mechanisms and representational media spanning several centuries. It explores the plays' affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dailey, Alice (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Plays. > Selections > History and criticism.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616
Plays (Shakespeare, William)
Death in literature.
Time in literature.
Literature and technology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare.
Death in literature
Literature and technology
Time in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The luminous spiral and the cigarette box : technologies of the afterdeath
  • Little, little graves : Shakespeare's photographs of Richard II
  • Haunted histories : dramatic double exposure in Henry IV, parts one and two
  • Dummies and doppelgängers : performing for the dead in 1 Henry VI
  • The king machine : reproducing sovereignty in 3 Henry VI
  • Fuck off and die : the queercrip reign of Richard III
  • Postscript : Lazarus again.

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