This project explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential.

H. Austin Whitver is a Senior Instructor at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He received his Ph.D with a focus on Early Modern Drama from the University of Alabama through The Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies. He has published articles in Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 and Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies and is a regular contributor to the Shakespeare Association of America conference.