Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theatre and Early Modern Culture (Early Modern Literature in History Series) »

TOBIAS DÖRING is Professor of English Literature at the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, and review editor for the yearbook of the German Shakespeare Association. His previous books include Caribbean-English Passages (2002) and Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (2005).

This bold and wide-ranging study takes a fresh look at a controversial question: what do the acts and shows of grief performed in early modern drama tell us about the religious culture of the world in which they were historically staged?

List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Citation
• Introduction
• Politics of Mourning: English History Plays
• Pathologies of Mourning: Elizabethan Revenge Tragedies
• Physiologies of Mourning: Tears and the Purgatory of Weeping
• Parodies of Mourning: Corpseless Comedies
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Index