Reanimating Grief: Waking the Dead in Literature, Theatre and Performance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526194695)

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief's subjectivity and uniqueness. It covers classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O'Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.

Author: William McEvoy
ISBN-10: 1526194694
ISBN-13: 9781526194695
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2026
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d