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Guilty creatures : Renaissance poetry and the ethics of authorship /

This is a study of how poets treat the theme of killing and various other depravities and immoralities in Renaissance poetry. The book explores the self-consciousness of the poet that accompanies literary killing, and explores fundamental moments in particular writings in which Renaissance poets adm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kezar, Dennis, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Courting heresy and taking the subject: John Skelton's precedent
  • Spenser and the poetics of indiscretion
  • The properties of Shakespeare's Globe
  • The witch of Edmonton and the guilt of possession
  • Samson's death by theater and Milton's art of dying
  • Guilt and the constitution of authorship in Henry V and the antitheatrical elegies of W.S. and Milton.