This book is Thomas Lovell Beddoes's defining text, a pastiche Renaissance tragedy replete with treachery, murder, sorcery and haunting, the extravagant expression of the poet's lifelong obsession with mortality and immortality. It is a classic of the literature of death.

    Contents
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction
    Note on the Text
    Publication History
    Selected Bibliography
    Preface
    Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy
    Notes
    Editorial Notes
    The Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society

    Biography

    Michael Bradshaw is a lecturer in English at the Manchester Metropolitan University; he is the author of Resurrection Songs: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, and co-editor of Beddoes's Selected Poetry; he has also published on George Darley, John Keats and Mary Shelley.