The Shakespearean Death Arts: Hamlet Among the Tombs (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Introduction
	References
Part I Staging the Death Arts
2 Shakespeare’s Ars Moriendi
	References
3 Deciphering the Dead: Speaking for Corpses in Early Modern Drama
	References
4 “As Thou Art, I Once Was”: Death and the Bodies in 2 Henry IV
	References
5 The Exemplum, Posterity, and Dramatic Irony in Antony and Cleopatra
	References
6 Ash, Rust, and Ooze: Funereal Rituals and Tombs in Pericles
	Rising from the Ash
	The Temporalities of Tombs
	Watery Tombs
	Rusty Armor
	The Power of Ooze
	References
7 Empathetic Reflections on Love, Life, and Death Art in Othello
	References
8 Othello’s Speaking Corpses and the Performance of Memento Mori
	“As You Are, so Once Was I. As I Am, so Shall You Be”
	Hearing Death
	The Corpse Talks Back
	Conclusion
	References
Part II Hamlet and the Death Arts
9 “Must I Remember?”: The Burden of the Past Tense in Hamlet
	“A Little month”
	England as Tributary
	Turnings in the Grave
	References
10 The Theater of Hamlet’s Judgments
	“Heaven and Earth”
	“And Shall I Couple Hell?”
	“Seasoned for His Passage”
	References
11 Death, Loss, and Description in Early Modern Rhetoric and Drama
	References
12 “Native and Indued / Unto that Element”: Dissolution, Permeability, and the Death of Ophelia
	References
13 The Soul of Agrippina: Gender, Suicide, and Reproductive Rights in Hamlet
	Suicide in Early Modern Europe
	Gertrude and Agrippina
	Death Rights
	References
14 Artless Deaths in Hamlet: The Play as Danse Macabre
	Hamlet with Figures of Death
	Hamlet as a Memento Mori Figure
	The Soliloquies as Meditations on Death
	The Play as Danse Macabre
	“There’s a Divinity that Shapes Our Ends”
	References
15 “A Consummation Devoutly to Be Wished”? Middles and Ends in Hamlet
	References
Afterword: Shakespeare and the Duties of the Living
References
Index