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TY  - JOUR
IS  - 33
T2  - Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English
ID  - bbbl2591
T1  - "'That skull had a tongue in it': Skulls, the Flesh, and the Individual in Early Modern Drama"
AU  - Owen, Chloe
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Considers significance of skull for developing sense of identity in Hamlet, Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606), and Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Bloody Banquet (1609). Analyzes both cultural representations and anatomical approaches to skulls in early modern period, attending to memento mori tradition, danse macabre, charnel houses, and early modern anatomy theatres and studies. Notes that skulls reveal tension between death as great leveler and anonymizer and posthumous continuation of individual identity. English summary, online.   
ER  -