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The will in English Renaissance drama / Douglas Clark.

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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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