The chapter examins a form of afterlife at once literal and metaphorical: In John Lydgate's Troy Book, the body of the slain Trojan hero Hector, suspended uneasily and uncannily on the boundary between life and death, participates in a variety of discourses concerning different stages of 'living-ness' while simultaneously marking a 'metatheatrical' moment that enables a look behind the scenes of Lydgate's de- and reconstruction of the Matter of Troy.