Date:1581
Description:‘Momenti Mori’: reminders to Shakespeare's contemporaries. The ‘momenti mori’ (reminders of death) are skulls and skeletons that may also have provided inspiration for dramatic scenes such as the crypt in which Juliet’s ‘body’ is laid in the play of Romeo and Juliet, or of the bones, which are unearthed by the gravedigger in Hamlet, 5,1, lines 74-96. See: Romeo and Juliet, 5, 1, line 18 and 5,3, lines 22-48. Full title: Richard Day, A Booke of Christian Prayers collected out of the auncient writers and best learned in our tyme, worthy to be read with earnest mynde of all Christians in these daungerous and troublesome dayes', London, John Daye, 1581.
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