Deathly experiments
Subtitle: a study of icons and emblems of mortality in Christopher Marlowe's plays
By: Clayton G. MacKenzie
Series: AMS studies in the Renaissance -- no. 49; AMS studies in the Renaissance -- no. 49.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brooklyn, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780404623494
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Death in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-138) and index.
Table of contents: title: Love, death, and the corruption of meaning in Dido, Queen of Carthage; title: Tamburlaine and the masks of death; title: "Neither to fate, nor fortune but to heaven": Barabas and the route to resolution in The Jew of Malta; title: Mythologies of death in Edward II; title: Murder and mayhem in The massacre at Paris; title: Faustus's contract and the manipulation of visual resonances in Doctor Faustus.