Tag: stephen greenblatt
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Fashioning Death: Anne Boleyn, James French, and the Last Dying Speech
From Anne Boleyn to a 20th Century murderer from Oklahoma, it seems that last dying speeches are all the fashion…
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“Funeral Baked Meats”: Cannibalism and Corpse Medicine in “Hamlet”
In “Hamlet,” Shakespeare’s depiction of man-eating in forces his audience to confront their own unsavoury distinctions between “acceptable” and “unacceptable” forms of cannibalism…
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