Issues of death : mortality and identity in English Renaissance tragedy
An analysis of the major plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton and Ford, which explores the relation of tragedy to the macabre tradition, to the apocalyptic displays of the anatomy theatre, and to the spectacular arts of funeral.
Print Book, English, 1998
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780198183860, 9780198184935, 0198183860, 019818493X
45858282
PART I. WITHIN ALL ROTTENNESS: TRAGEDY, DEATH, AND APOCALYPSE ; PART II. MAKING AN END: DEATHS ARREST AND THE SHAPING OF TRAGIC NARRATIVE ; PART III. RUE WITH A DIFFERENCE: TRAGEDY AND THE FUNEREAL ARTS