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"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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Death's Jest Book
• Author: Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 123
• EAN: 9781857545999
• ISBN: 1857545990
• ID: 05117703
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 268 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 145 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. September 2003

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