@article{1446717,
      recid = {1446717},
      author = {Engel, William E., and Williams, Grant,},
      title = {Shakespearean death arts : Hamlet among the tombs /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This is the first book to view Shakespeares plays from the  prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars  moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural  expressions of memento mori, funeral rituals, commemorative  activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies  fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death,  and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections:  first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeares  corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the  ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This  book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes  of mortality by reframing Shakespeares plays within a newly  conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural  divideat once epistemological and phenomenologicalbetween  premodernity and the Enlightenment. William E. Engel is the  Nick B. Williams Professor of Literature at The University  of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. He has published  eight books on literary history and applied emblematics,  including two critical anthologies coauthored with Rory  Loughnane and Grant Williams, The Death Arts in Renaissance  England (2022) and The Memory Arts in Renaissance England  (2016); and has coedited several collections of essays  including Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England  (2022) and Memory and Forgetting in the Early Modern Era  (2018). Grant Williams is an Associate Professor of English  Literature at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. With  William E. Engel and Rory Loughnane, he has co-authored The  Death Arts in Renaissance England (2022) and, with Donald  Beecher, edited Henry Chettles Kind-Hearts Dream and Piers  Plainness: Two Pamphlets from the Elizabethan Book Trade  (2021). He has also co-authored The Memory Arts in  Renaissance England (2016) with Engel and Loughnane and  co-edited three collections: Taking Exception to the Law  (2015), Ars reminiscendi (2009), and Lethes Legacies  (2004).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1446717},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88490-1},
}