Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb(Early Modern Literature in History)

Series: Early Modern Literature in History

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.