Last Acts : The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage /
"Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death. The book analyzes representations of dying in plays by writers including Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary bi...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2019.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the art of dying
- Dying badly : Doctor Faustus and the parodic drama of blasphemy
- Dying politically : Edward II and the ends of dynastic monarchy
- Dying representatively : Richard II and mimetic mortality
- Dying communally : Volpone and how to get rich quick
- Epilogue : afterlife.