Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory

ISBN-13: 9780199257621 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 216 str.

Dr William E. Engel

Opis

Drawing on a range of works from the English Renaissance, Death and Drama in Renaissance England offers a novel way to understand, in their original contexts, key aspects of Renaissance mental life and letters. Focusing on the classical Memory Arts, William Engel explores issues of death and decline in exemplary dramas, dictionaries, and histories of the period, and demonstrates the ways in which emblems and memory images were used to communicate special meanings.

Recenzje

One great contribution of this book is that it grants the memory arts an expanded arena of influence; it shows that mnemonic principles served as 'a fundamental feature of the organization...of knowledge in general' in this period.

O autorze

William Engel is an independent scholar and freelance tutor; author of Education & Anarchy (University Press of America, 2001) and Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England (University of Massachusetts Press, 1995). He has been Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University (1988-95), Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, Newberry Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities; and Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.