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How to do things with dead people : history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol / Alice Dailey.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2982 .D35 2024
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dailey, Alice, author.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Plays (Shakespeare, William).
Death in literature.
Time in literature.
Literature and technology.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Plays--Selections.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Histories.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:
xv, 246 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2024]
Summary:
"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 with dead things-technologies like photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, capital punishment machines, and cloning."-- Provided by publisher
Contents:
Introduction: The luminous spiral and the cigarette box, or 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.
Notes:
Publication date from publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Edition:
Reproduction of: Dailey, Alice. Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2022
Other Format:
Online version: Dailey, Alice. How to do things with dead people.
ISBN:
9781501775895
1501775898
OCLC:
1260292571
Publisher Number:
99996786863

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