Death's Jest-Book - Brossura

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

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ISBN 10: 1904052088 ISBN 13: 9781904052081

Casa editrice: West House Books, 2003

Riassunto

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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: West House Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1904052088
• ISBN 13: 9781904052081
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 184