Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Historical Drama and Double Exposure
The author argues that historical drama is a kind of double exposure because it uses a living body to represent a dead body. When we get to cloning, which is another form of double exposure, we are both replicating the prior technology of photographic double exposure and doing something that's already happening in history plays. In your second chapter, you talk about, am, ghosts ou know? The way o thes sort of early photographs captured what seemed like spectral guest visitors. Can you bring that to bear on henry? Four parts, one into which is what that chapter engages with. And it maybe specific scenes in those plays.
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