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Last Acts

Maggie Vinter

2019224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2019
first published
  • 2019Fordham University Press · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780823284252
  • 2019Fordham University Press · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780823284269

"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"--

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