Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb

by Scott L. Newstok

Book Overview

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349301124
• ISBN13: 9781349301126
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"