Shakespeare's Dead By Simon Palfrey, Emma Smith

Bodleian

Shakespeare's Dead\nby Emma Smith\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Emma Smith\nTitle: Shakespeare's Dead\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: plays and playwrights\nPublisher: Bodleian Library\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781851242474\nISBN-10: 1851242473\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nPyramus: \u2018Now die, die, die, die, die.\u2019\n[Dies] A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream 'Shakespeare\u2019s Dead' reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death on sta.