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

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 with dead...

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Main Author:	Dailey, Alice (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2022].
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Plays. > Selections > History and criticism. Death in literature. Time in literature. Literature and technology.

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Summary:	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 with dead things, technologies like photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, capital punishment machines and cloning.
Physical Description:	xv, 246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781501763656 1501763652