Last Acts
Subtitle: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: May 07, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780823284269
Description: "Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage shows how theater reflects, enables, and contests the politicization of life and death. The book analyzes representations of dying in plays by writers including Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson, alongside devotional texts and contemporary biopolitical theory"--
Notes: Source title: Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage