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  title info:
    title: Monuments and literary posterity in early modern drama
  name:
    name part: Chalk, Brian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book reevaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theater and print history.
  table of contents: Introduction: "raptures of futurity" -- 1. "Let All things End": Marlowe's immortality -- 2. Jonson's textual monument -- 3. Webster's "worthyest monument": the problem of posterity in The Duchess of Malfi -- 4. "Mocking life": preemptive commemoration in The Winter's Tale -- 5. Fletcher's future: dynasty and collaborative posterity in Henry VIII -- Coda: what they hath left us -- Select bibliography -- Index.
  note: Brian Chalk.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [210]-219) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: 17th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Monuments in literature
  subject:
    topic: Memorials in literature
  subject:
    topic: Drama
    topic: Publishing
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Drama
    topic: Publishing
    geographic: England
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  classification: PR658.M66 C43 2015
  classification: 822/.309
  identifier: 9781107123472
  identifier: 110712347X
  identifier: 9781316413234
  identifier: 2015033490
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150925
    record change date: 20170630113425.0
    record identifier: in00003810434