Book 2019

Last Acts

Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 2019

English literature
English drama
History and criticism
Death in literature
Theater
History
Early modern and Elizabethan

"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"--