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Playing Dead: Staging Corpses, Ghosts, and Statues in Early Modern Drama
<p>Semi-animate corpses, physically powerful ghosts, and natural looking statues serve a powerful metatheatrical purpose in early modern drama. Such liminal bodies, which I define as figures caught between the fictional body and the living actor, model the relation between playgoer, actor, and …