1st Edition

Shakespeare�s Suicides Dead Bodies That Matter

By Marlena Tronicke Copyright 2018
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra , thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In... Read more
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Biography

Marlena Tronicke is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Münster, Germany. Apart from Shakespeare and early modern drama in general, her areas of research and teaching include adaptation, Neo-Victorianism, as well as contemporary British theatre.