Last Acts : The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vinter, Maggie (Magdalena) (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Theater.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan.
English drama.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Renaissance.
DRAMA > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Theâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Mort dans la litterature.
Theâtre anglais > 17e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Theâtre anglais > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Theater > England > History > 17th century.
Theater > England > History > 16th century.
English drama > 17th century > History and criticism.
English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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