The summons of death on the medieval and Renaissance English stage, Phoebe S. Spinrad

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The summons of death on the medieval and Renaissance English stage, Phoebe S. Spinrad

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Phoebe S. Spinrad

Instantiates

• The summons of death on the medieval and Renaissance English stage

Publication

• Columbus, Ohio State University Press, ©1987

Note

Includes index

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. 317-329

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volume

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• nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

I. Death Takes a Grisly Shape -- Medieval and Renaissance Iconography -- II. Answering the Summons -- The Art of Dying -- III. Death Takes to the Stage -- The Mystery Cycles and Early Moralities -- IV. Death as Educator -- Everyman -- V. Death Takes an Alias -- The Late Moralities and the Secular Mode -- VI. Medieval Summons, -- Renaissance Response -- Tamburlaine, Parts I. and II. -- VII. The Summons to Hell -- Doctor Faustus -- VIII. The Kindly Summons -- Measure for Measure -- IX. The Summons of Nothingness -- The Duchess of Malfi -- X. Memento Mockery -- The Old Iconography Begins to Slip -- XI. A Choice of Deaths -- The Last Decades of Renaissance Theater -- Epilogue -- Some Last Words and a Last Play -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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23 cm

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xii, 334 pages

Isbn

9780814204436

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87005487

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rdamedia

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• n

Record ID

99190891420001161

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(OCoLC)15221646