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This action of our death : the performance of death in English Renaissance drama

Title
This action of our death : the performance of death in English Renaissance drama / Michael Cameron Andrews.
Author
Andrews, Michael Cameron, 1938-
Publication
Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1989.

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Description
214 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • 1500-1699
  • English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 > History and criticism
  • English drama > 17th century > History and criticism
  • Death in literature
  • Renaissance > England
  • Drama > english
  • Drama > history
  • English drama
  • English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
  • Renaissance
  • Drama
  • Englisch
  • Tod Motiv
  • Tod
  • Geschichte (1590-1626)
  • Geschichte (1580-1620)
  • England
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 199-209.
Contents
Making death matter : Marlowe and his predecessors -- Deaths horrific and exemplary -- Chapman and Webster -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- Middleton and Massinger -- Ford and Shirley -- Shakespeare (1) -- Shakespeare (2) -- Appendix: The rhetoric of death.
ISBN
  • 0874133548
  • 9780874133547
LCCN
88045743
OCLC
  • ocm18986263
  • 18986263
  • SCSB-14542687
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library