Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy

by Michael Neill

Book Overview

Issues of Death offers a fresh approach to the tragic drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Starting from the premise that "death" is a historical construct that is differently experienced in every culture, it treats Renaissance tragedy as an instrument for reimagining the human encounter with death. Analyses of major plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, and Ford explore the relation of tragedy to the macabre tradition, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019818493X
• ISBN13: 9780198184935
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"