Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

Introduction: Between memory and death William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane and Grant Williams; Part I. The Arts of Remembering Death: 1. Death and the art of memory in Donne Rebeca Helfer; 2. Spiritual accountancy in the age of Shakespeare Jonathan Baldo; 3. Recollection and preemptive resurrection in Shakespeare's sonnets John S. Garrison; 4. Learn how to die Scott Newstok; Part II. Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead: 5. Memory, climate, and mortality: The Dudley women among the fields Patricia Phillippy; 6. Scattered bones, martyrs, materiality and memory in Drayton and Milton Philip Schwyzer; 7. Theatrical monuments in Middleton's A game at chess Brian Chalk; 8. Thomas Browne's retreat to earth Claire Preston; Part III. The Ends of Commemoration: 9. The Unton portrait reconsidered Peter Sherlock; 10. Andrew Marvell's taste for death Anita Gilman Sherman; 11. The many labours of mourning a virgin queen Andrew Hiscock; 12. Superfluous men and the graveyard politics of the Duchess of Malfi Michael Neill; Bibliography; Index.