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Last acts: the art of dying on the early modern stage
Door
Uittreksel
"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 biopolitical theory"--
Inhoud
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.
Uitgever
Uitgave
New York: Fordham University Press, 2019
Jaar
Gaat over
Onderwerp
Periode
1500-1699
Type
Taal
Classificatie
ISBN
- 0823284255
- 9780823284252
- 9780823284269
- 0823284263
Annotaties / titel notitie's
Notities
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Johns Hopkins University, 2013, titled Last acts : the arts of dying, the good deathbed and the early modern stage.
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