How to do things with dead people : history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol /
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How to do things with dead people : history, technology, and temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol /

"This book studies Shakespeare's English history plays, contextualizing them among reproductive mechanisms and representational media spanning several centuries. It explores the plays' affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting wi...

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Main Author: Dailey, Alice (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
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Summary:"This book studies Shakespeare's English history plays, contextualizing them among reproductive mechanisms and representational media spanning several centuries. It explores the plays' affinity with a transhistorical array of technologies for producing, reproducing, and interacting with dead things-technologies like photography, ventriloquist puppetry, X-ray imaging, capital punishment machines, and cloning."--
Physical Description:1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501763656
1501763652
9781501763670