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Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory.(Book Review)

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| January 01, 2005 | Jesson, James | COPYRIGHT 2003 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory. By William E. Engel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xii, 200 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-925762-0.

Emblematic images of skulls, ambulant skeletons, and other representations of death haunt the pages of William E. Engel's study of Renaissance literature and memory, Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory. According to Engel, such images illustrate a seventeenth-century "aesthetic of decline," a sense of impending "oblivion," which to Engel covers everything from individual death to the collective ruin threatened by political and social crisis. However, even while manifesting this cultural unease, Engel argues, emblems and other Renaissance…

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