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Death's Jest Book
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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Description for Death's Jest Book
Paperback. "Death's Jest-Book" is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Num Pages: 123 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
"Death's Jest-Book" is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Conceived as a satirical tragedy unmasking the terror of death, it contains some of the most powerful dramatic blank verse by any of the British Romantics. After early acclaim as a lyric poet and dramatist, Beddoes (1803-49) is only now emerging from a century and a half of neglect. This is the first affordable modern edition to present the "Jest-Book" in its earliest complete form, as Beddoes intended to publish it ... Read more
"Death's Jest-Book" is the extravagant expression of Thomas Lovell Beddoes's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality, a surrealising of Renaissance revenge tragedy, alight with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting. Conceived as a satirical tragedy unmasking the terror of death, it contains some of the most powerful dramatic blank verse by any of the British Romantics. After early acclaim as a lyric poet and dramatist, Beddoes (1803-49) is only now emerging from a century and a half of neglect. This is the first affordable modern edition to present the "Jest-Book" in its earliest complete form, as Beddoes intended to publish it ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
123
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
231g
Number of Pages
123
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857545999
SKU
V9781857545999
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99-13
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