Maggie Vinter

Last Acts

The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780823284269
• ISBN-10: 0823284263
• Artikelnr.: 53532388

Autorenporträt

Maggie Vinter is Assistant Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Art of Dying 1
1. Dying Badly: Doctor Faustus and the Parodic Drama of Blasphemy 31
2. Dying Politically: Edward II and the Ends of Dynastic Monarchy 54
3. Dying Representatively: Richard II and Mimetic Mortality 87
4. Dying Communally: Volpone and How to Get Rich Quick 120
Epilogue: Afterlife 147
Acknowledgments 169
Notes 171
Index 207