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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Bibliographic Details
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.

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 doppelgaÌˆngers: 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.