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How to do things with dead people history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol

"This book studies Shakespeare's English history plays, contextualizing them among reproductive mechanisms and representational media spanning several centuries. It explores the plays' affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dailey, Alice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2022
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The luminous spiral and the cigarette box: technologies of the afterdeath
  • Little, little graves: Shakespeare's photographs of Richard II
  • Haunted histories: dramatic double exposure in Henry IV, parts one and two
  • Dummies and doppelgängers: performing for the dead in 1 Henry VI
  • The king machine: reproducing sovereignty in 3 Henry VI
  • Fuck off and die: the queercrip reign of Richard III
  • Postscript: Lazarus again