Within a theoretical framework that makes use of history,
psychoanalysis and anthropology, "The Early Modern Corpse and
Shakespeare's Theatre" explores the relationship of the public
theatre to the question of what constituted the "dead" in early
modern English culture.
Susan Zimmerman argues that concepts of the corpse as a
semi-animate, generative and indeterminate entity were deeply
rooted in medieval religious culture. Such concepts ran counter to
early modern discourses that sought to harden categorical
distinctions between body/spirit, animate/inanimate - in
particular, the attacks of Reformists on the materiality of "dead"
idols, and the rationale of the new anatomy for publicly dissecting
'dead' bodies. Zimmerman contends that within this context,
theatrical representations of the corpse or corpse/revenant - as
seen here in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his contemporaries -
uniquely showcased the theatre's own ideological and performative
agency.
Features
*Original in its conjunction of critical theory (Bataille,
Kristeva, Lacan, Benjamin) with an historical account of the
shifting status of the corpse in late medieval and early modern
England
*The first study to demonstrate connections between the meanings
attached to the material body in early modern Protestantism, the
practice of anatomical dissection, and the English public
theatre.
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