Issues of Death Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy

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ISBN: 9780198184935 | 019818493X
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Copyright: 3/18/1999

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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.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Note on Conventions Used in the Text	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
'Within all rottenness': Tragedy, Death, and Apocalypse	p. 49
'Peremptory Nullification': Tragedy and Macabre Art	p. 51
The Stage of Death: Tragedy and Anatomy	p. 102
Opening the Moor: Death and Discovery in Othello	p. 141
'Hidden Malady': Death, Discovery, and Indistinction in The Changeling	p. 168
Making an End: Death's Arrest and the Shaping of Tragic Narrative	p. 199
Anxieties of Ending	p. 201
'To Know My Stops': Hamlet and Narrative Abruption	p. 216
Accommodating the Dead: Hamlet and the Ends of Revenge	p. 243
'Rue with a Difference': Tragedy and the Funereal Arts	p. 263
'Death's Triumphal Chariot': Tragedy and Funeral	p. 265
Finis Coronat Opus: The Monumental Ending of Anthony and Cleopatra	p. 305
'Fame's Best Friend': The Endings of the Duchess of Malfi	p. 328
'Great Arts Best Write Themselves in Their Own Stories': Ending	p. 354
Appendix the: Plague and the Dance of Death	p. 375
Bibliography	p. 377
Index	p. 393
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