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. 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.

General

Imprint:	Fyfieldbooks
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	July 2006
Authors:	Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	123
ISBN-13:	978-1-85754-599-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > General
LSN:	1-85754-599-0
Barcode:	9781857545999

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