Issues of Death - Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy

Zusatztext subtle, patient, and learned study of early modern English tragedy ... Neill's work is exemplary and important ... Issues of Death is the most consistently illuminating and rewarding book on English Renaissance tragedy written in the last twenty years ... the pleasure of learning from Neill's scholarship and critical sensitivity is reinforced by the attractiveness of the physical object in which those qualities are conveyed to us. Oxford University Press have designed the book beautifully, have printed it on excellent paper, and have included a generous number of illustrations. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Michael Neill, Michael (Professor of English in the Depart Neill, Michael (Professor of English in the Department of English Neill, Neill Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9780198183860
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818386-0
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; England, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Literary studies: plays and playwrights