Shakespeare's Dead: Stages of Death in Shakespeare's Playworlds

by Simon Palfrey and Emma Smith

Four hundred years after Shakespeare's death, his plays live on in theater and popular culture, given new life through countless innovative approaches to their performance and interpretation. Just as our enthusiasm for seeing the plays performed--and transformed--affirms their continued life, death scenes in Shakespeare's plays tend to mark not an ending but a transformation of life. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851242473
• ISBN13: 9781851242474
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Bodleian Library
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 8.2"