Glimmering worlds: the drama of dying in Shakespeare's England

This dissertation explores how late medieval and early modern English culture understood the possibilities of experience inherent within our dying moments. I argue that, rather than approaching the moment of death as exclusively terrible, unbearable, or meaningless, as some literary scholars have cl...

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Main Author: Byker, Devin Lee
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19723