Issues of death : mortality and identity in English Renaissance tragedy / Michael Neill
1998, 1st paperback edition. Oxford : Clarendon. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #384771
Physical description; xii, 404 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. 'Peremptory nullification': Tragedy and Macabre Art -- 2. The Stage of Death: Tragedy and Anatomy -- 3. Opening the Moor: Death and Discovery in Othello -- 4. 'Hidden malady': Death, Discovery, and Indistinction in The Changeling -- 5. Anxieties of Ending -- 6. 'To know my stops': Hamlet and Narrative Abruption -- 7. Accommodating the Dead: Hamlet and the Ends of Revenge -- 8. 'Death's triumphal chariot': Tragedy and Funeral -- 9. Finis coronat opus: The Monumental Ending of Anthony and Cleopatra -- 10. 'Fame's best friend': The Endings of The Duchess of Malfi -- 11. 'Great arts best write themselves in their own stories': Ending The Broken Heart -- Appendix. The Plague and the Dance of Death. Subjects; Ford, John 1586-1640? Marlowe, Christopher 1564-1593. Middleton, Thomas 1580-1627. Rowley, William 1585?-1642? Shakespeare, William 1564-1616. Webster, John 1580?-1625? Criticism and interpretation. English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600. Death Social aspects England History 17th century. Attitude to Death. Mortality.
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