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Article: The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre.(Book review)
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- Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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- January 1, 2007
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The Early Modern Corpse and Shakespeare's Theatre, by Susan Zimmerman. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. Pp. viii + 216. Cloth $80.00.
Susan Zimmerman's Early Modern Corpse is a wonderful paradox: steeped in the contemplation of death, decomposition, and putrefaction, its language, critical argumentation, and theoretical and historical insight are continuously vibrant, vital, and intellectually alive. Zimmerman's overarching achievement lies in bringing together, in historically responsible ways, Reformation religious debate with contemporary theory, thereby generating a series of sharp insights not only into the structure of individual early modern ...