Death's Jest Book

The 1829 text
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-415-96933-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 204 g

Reihe: Fyfield Books

This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bradshaw, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Publication History
Selected Bibliography
Preface
Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy
Notes
Editorial Notes
The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Bradshaw is a lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University; he is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and co-editor of Beddoes's Selected Poetry; he has also published on George Darley, John Keats and Mary Shelley.