Last Acts: The Art Of Dying On The Early Modern Stage - 9780823284252

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.

• | Author: Maggie Vinter
• | Publisher: Fordham University Press
• | Publication Date: May 07, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 224 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0823284255
• | ISBN-13: 9780823284252