Death and Elizabethan Tragedy: A Study of Convention and Opinion in the Elizabethan Drama

Aëcius Atheist's Tragedy audience bethan body Bonduca Bussy D'Ambois Byron Caratach Cato Chapman characters Christian Claudio commit suicide common convention Dance of Death darkness dead Dekker described desire Donne dramatists Duchess of Malfi Duke dying earth Eliza Elizabethan drama Elizabethan tragedy emotion emphasis on death expressed fact fame farewell Faustus fear feel flesh Fletcher ghost give Gorboduc grave Hamlet hand hath heaven hell Hengo hero Honest Whore horrible ideas J. P. Collier kill King literature live London man's Marlowe Marston medieval Middle Ages mind Mirror for Magistrates Montaigne moral murder notion Petrarch phrase platitude play poem poet poetry remarks Renaissance Revenger's Tragedy Richard III Roman says scene Seneca Shakespeare sixteenth century skeleton skull sleep soul speaks speech Tamb Tamburlaine teaching thee Thierry and Theodoret thing thou thought tion torment Tourneur treatment of death Virgin Webster White Devil words worldly