Description
Book SynopsisRe-evaluating the relationship between Renaissance dramatists and literary posterity, this book centres on the question of how writers attempted to cope with mortality, with a particular focus on drama and the building of monuments. It will interest scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history.
Trade Review'This is at once an admirable study of the paradoxes of memorialization in several important Renaissance dramatic texts, and a significant intervention in the contemporary critical conversation.' Clara Calvo, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'raptures of futurity'; 1. 'Let all things end': Marlowe's immortality; 2. Jonson's textual monument; 3. Webster's 'worthyest monument': the problem of posterity in The Duchess of Malfi; 4. 'Mocking life': preemptive commemoration in The Winter's Tale; 5. Fletcher's future: dynasty and collaborative posterity in Henry VIII; Coda: what they hath left us; Select bibliography; Index.
