Death's Jest Book: The 1829 Text

ISBN-13: 9780415969338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003

Thomas Lovell Beddoes; Michael Bradshaw

Opis

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 in 1829. The text is supplemented by Michael Bradshaw's introduction, notes and outline of the publication history.

Spis treści

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
Publication History
Selected Bibliography
Preface
Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy
Notes
Editorial Notes
The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society

O autorze

Michael Bradshaw is a lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University; he is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and co-editor of Beddoes's Selected Poetry; he has also published on George Darley, John Keats and Mary Shelley.