Shakespearean Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ......................................................... ix INTRODUCTION Shakespeare’s Art of Almost Raising the Dead ............................................... 1 ONE The Comedies: Recognition and Quasi Resurrection .............................. 35 TWO Failed Resurrections in Romeo and Juliet and Othello ................................ 77 THREE Cordelia’s Quasi Resurrection and Shakespearean Revision ...................... 98 FOUR The Limits of Stage Resurrection in Pericles and Cymbeline ...................... 122 FIVE Raising the Dead in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest ................................. 149 Appendix Mock Resurrections ................................... 184 Notes ............................................................................... 188 Works Cited .................................................................... 201 Index ............................................................................... 212 ...