Last Acts: The Art of Dying on the Early Modern Stage

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
Published: 05/07/2019
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780823284252

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2019

About the Author
Maggie Vinter is Assistant Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.