The Rest is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Rest is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance Book

How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet, and through plays of procreation such as Measure for Measure and Macbeth. These alternative forms of resistance recur in John Donne's erotic lyrics, which resist the erasure of individuality, and George Herbert's pious ones, which convey faith in a general renewal. Placing these literary manifestations in the context of specific Jacobean death-bed crises and modern cultural distortions, Watson explores the psychological roots and political consequences of denying that death permanently erases sensation and consciousness.Read More

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  • 0520219635
  • 9780520219632
  • Robert N. Watson
  • 20 October 1999
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 430
  • New edition
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