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Shakespeare's Counternarrative Against Death 

Immortal Longings in His Plays and Poetry

Toby Widdicombe

330 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-008-7 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (September 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-006-3 eBook Not Yet Published


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Shakespeare’s enduring significance lies in the persistent counternarrative his plays and poetry offer against the permanence of mortality. This study examines the strategies through which Shakespeare resists death’s finality, situating its argument within the cultural realities of the Shakespearean age. Across three sections, it analyzes the dramatic and poetic techniques that articulate this challenge to mortality. While acknowledging the importance of textual and performance-based scholarship, the book argues for renewed attention to Shakespearean meaning. In doing so, it reconsiders what continues to make Shakespeare matter within literary and intellectual history.

Toby Widdicombe is Professor of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He has published numerous books, most including Max Nettlau's Utopian Vision: A Translation of Esbozo de historia de las utopias (Anthem Press, 2023) and a co-edited volume, Celebrating Tolkien's Legacy (Walking Tree, 2024).

Subject: Literary Studies


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