Death's Jest-Book
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781904052081
Paperback|9781904052081
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Drama. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Halsey. This renaissance-revival comedy was first published in 1849, a year after Thomas Lovell Beddoes' death. "Beddoes called his play 'A Dithyrambic in the florid Gothic style.' Modeled on the revenge tragedies of the Jacobeans, it is sustained by a poetry of glittering surface with an ever-present undertow of death and destruction, tempered by humor deriving out of a remorseless sense of absurdity and alienation. Beddoes was certainly 'possessed by death' but death is a theme played in several keys, allowing startling reversals of common values and perspectives" -- Alan Halsey, Introduction.
| ISBN-13 | 9781904052081 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1904052088 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 In |
| List Price | $35.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 167 pages |
| Publisher | West House Books |
| Published On | 2003-01-01 |
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