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The will in English Renaissance drama / Douglas Clark.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Douglas (Researcher in English literature), Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Will in literature.
- English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Shedding light on a relatively neglected yet demonstrably crucial concern for dramatists in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, this is the first monograph to explain the central role that the performance of the will - as both faculty of the soul and legal document - took in English Renaissance drama"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : where there is a will
- The personified will
- Punishing the transgressive will
- Testamentary drama
- LAst wills and remembrance
- Conclusion : no end?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 11, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Clark, Douglas Will in English Renaissance drama
- ISBN:
- 9781009390934
- 1009390937
- 9781009390927
- 1009390929
- OCLC:
- 1526228693
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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