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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vinter, Maggie

Titel

Last acts : the art of dying on the early modern stage

Auflage

First edition

Ort / Verlag

New York : Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Johns Hopkins University, 2013, titled Last acts : the arts of dying, the good deathbed and the early modern stage.
• Introduction : the art of dying -- Dying badly : Doctor Faustus and the parodic drama of blasphemy -- Dying politically : Edward II and the ends of dynastic monarchy -- Dying representatively : Richard II and mimetic mortality -- Dying communally : Volpone and how to get rich quick -- Epilogue : afterlife