Death's Jest-Book

by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Book Overview

Drama. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey. This renaissance-revival comedy was first published in 1849, a year after Thomas Lovell Beddoes' death. "Beddoes called his play 'A Dithyrambic in the florid Gothic style.' Modeled on the revenge tragedies of the Jacobeans, it is sustained by a poetry of glittering surface with an ever-present undertow of death and destruction, tempered by humor deriving out of a remorseless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904052088
• ISBN13: 9781904052081
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: West House Books
• Length: 167 Pages