Last Acts : : The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage / / Maggie Vinter.
Last Acts argues that the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater offered playwrights, actors, and audiences important opportunities to practice arts of dying. Psychoanalytic and new historicist scholars have exhaustively documented the methods that early modern dramatic texts and performances use to memor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. The art of dying
- Chapter 1. Dying badly: doctor faustus and the parodic drama of blasphemy
- Chapter 2. Dying politically: Edward II and the ends of dynastic monarchy
- Chapter 3. Dying representatively: Richard II and the politics of mimetic mortality
- Chapter 4. Dying communally: Volpone and how to get rich quick
- Epilogue. Afterlife
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index