Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Death & Dying - Sociocultural Aspects, English Drama - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, Renaissance - History, British History - Social Aspects, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & J

Issues of Death

Name: Issues of Death
Author: Michael Neill
ISBN: 9780198184935

by Michael Neill

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Overview

Viewing Renaissance tragedy as an instrument for reimagining the human encounter with death, Neill examines major plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, and Ford, exploring the relation of tragedy to the macabre tradition, to the apocalyptic displays of the anatomy theatre, and to the spectacular arts of funeral.