"'That skull had a tongue in it': Skulls, the Flesh, and the Individual in Early Modern Drama"
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Author:
	Owen, Chloe.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2016
Publication Information:
	Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English, no. 33 (2016). (https://postgradenglishjournal.awh.durham.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/pgenglish/article/view/189)
Annotation:
	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.   
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Middleton, Thomas; Dekker, Thomas
Tags:
	Hamlet, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Symbolism, Iconography
WSB Update:
	Spring 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbl2591