Pyramus: 'Now die, die, die, die, die.' [Dies] A Midsummer Night's
Dream 'Shakespeare's Dead' reveals the unique ways in which
Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It
establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for
thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the
plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the
divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death
on stage is different from death in real life. The dead come to
life, ghosts haunt the living, and scenes of mourning are subverted
by the fact that the supposed corpse still breathes. Shakespeare
scripts his scenes of dying with extraordinary care. Famous final
speeches - like Hamlet's 'The rest is silence', Mercutio's 'A
plague o' both your houses', or Richard III's 'My kingdom for a
horse' - are also giving crucial choices to the actors as to
exactly how and when to die. Instead of the blank finality of
death, we get a unique entrance into the loneliness or confusion of
dying. 'Shakespeare's Dead' tells of death-haunted heroes such as
Macbeth and Hamlet, and death-teasing heroines like Juliet,
Ophelia, and Cleopatra. It explores the fear of 'something after
death', and characters' terrifying visions of being dead. But it
also uncovers the constant presence of death in Shakespeare's
comedies, and how the grinning jester might be a leering skull in
disguise. This book celebrates the paradox: the life in death in
Shakespeare.
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